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<\/a>Several months ago, I named this station Bingen Radio, in honor of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century religious and mystic who also happens to be the first composer of music of whom we have a detailed biography. I wrote a bit about her previously here<\/a>. The image of Hildegard\u2019s statue is cribbed from James Woodward\u2019s fine blog<\/a>, which I\u2019m now going to follow, having once discovered it.<\/p>\nOn this station you will hear a selection of mostly a cappella choral music from Hildegard to Arvo (Part), with stops along the way for Gregorian Chant, Josquin Desprez, Tom\u00e1s Luis Victoria, and William Byrd, to mention but a few. No, I don\u2019t know fact one about most of these folks. I only know that listening to this beautiful selection of music puts me in an entirely different space the moment I launch Pandora.<\/p>\n
Another cool thing about Pandora is, once you download my <\/i>Bingen Radio, you can make it your own. Every time a piece comes on, you can give it a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and Pandora will continuously adjust the mix of music to your taste. You can start brand-new stations too. I have half-a-dozen, including Chopin Radio (piano-oriented classical) and Knopfler Radio (named for the Dire Straits front man who is my favorite pop musician). <\/p>\n
So here\u2019s what you do: Go to our fan page (YIM Catholic) on FaceBook, become a fan, and click on the link posted there. The Pandora station \u201cBingen Radio\u201d will download to your computer. And the next time you join us at YIM Catholic, you can hum along.<\/p>\n
Update:<\/b> See the righthand sidebar for a link to the YIMCatholic Pandora stations=====>>><\/i><\/p>\n Posted by Webster\u00a0One of my favorite discoveries of 2009 is Pandora Radio. It\u2019s a Web service that allows you to create your own radio station. As a Catholic I find it useful because I can gather in one place the kinds of religious music that I find most inspiring\u2014stuff I didn\u2019t even know existed. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-176200225366330804?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\")