Happy New Year!

Yup, it’s 2010. And besides being the year that Vancouver finally hosts the Olympics, this is just a fun year to say: twenty ten. It rolls nice and feels some how all futuristic. “In the year 2010, man was…” or some such beginning to some story by a Asimov or Clarke.

But on today’s show I’ll be having nothing to do with the future. It’s all about the past, or more specifically – the timeless. Those classic ideas that just don’t ever seem to age.

As well as lots of music, I’ll be playing excerpts from a radio show R3 producer,Marie Bartlett and I made for CBC Radio One called Past Perfect. The show airs today at 4p.m. PT/ET. Coming up thoughts from Todor Kobakov on going from pop to classical;  two letter-writing artists, and a chat with Cohen Brown, a former budding academic and now a butcher’s apprentice.

It’s a pretty great show, if I do say so myself. I hope you get a chance to hear it. If not, enjoy these insights. They might just help you on the year ahead.

posted by Lisa Christiansen on Jan 01, 2010