April 29, 2015 

Art Nouveau was a movement and attempt to create a modern style in architecture, art, graphic works, and illustrations popular from 1890 up to the First World War. Inspiration came from the natural forms and departures from previous traditional movements.

"history of the Art Nouveau movement"

 

April 22, 2015:

1940:  Fall of France and the Spirit of Dunkirk.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. Omar N. Bradley, United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army.

"After Adolf Hitler’s rise and take-over of power in Germany in 1933, the Nazi party promoted vastly ambitious demands based on Nazi ideology such as uniting all Germans (and further all Germanic peoples) in Europe in a single nation; the acquisition of "living space" primarily for agrarian settlers.  In a model similar to the American Manifest Destiny in the Far West the Nazis pursued policies and actions to  clear native inhabitants; eliminate Bolshevism; and create the hegemony (leadership or dominance)of superiority".

THE MORE the MERRIER!  reposted as a JPEG for easier downloading

We encourage everyone to set up a booth (private or non-profit, flea market sales ok) at the upcoming May 23 KGGV benefit Strawberry Festival. If you were previously unable to download the form, here is a jpeg -- simply click on the form, "save as" to your computer, print and send to KGGV 95.1 FM, PO Box 1131, Guerneville, Ca 95446 with your payment -- or leave a message for a form to be sent to you at 707 869 1131.

See you at the Strawberry Festival.

April 15, 2015:

KGGV’s history and music series Beneath the Waves with host Gerry Takano: 
Madagascar:  An Interview with Padma Catell.

Padma is a fellow KGGV 95.1 FM deejay who hosts "Ask the Shrinks" with Robin Raike.  She recently traveled to Madagascar and will share her observations and experiences.

Madagascar is an island country in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeast Africa. The nation comprises the island of Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in the world) and smaller surrounding islands. Madagascar's biodiversity system is unique and threatened; over 90 percent of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth.

April 8, 2015:

Mid Century Optimistic Voices:  The music of Rodgers & Hammerstein

In the late 1940s and the 1950s the Hollywood musical genre was at its height.  Television, however, drew millions of customers away from movie theatres and sped the death of the studios that had made lavish screen musicals productions. This coincided with the U.S. Federal courts forcing the studios to sell off their nationwide theater chains --a long-profitable system fell apart quickly.

Along came the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein and their very successful Broadway and movie productions. The new, delightful and formulated musicals, with simple messages of optimism and hope, would shine forever  -- State Fair, The King and I, Oklahoma, Carousel, Sound of Music, South Pacific....