Virus-free.www.avg.com RADIO ETHER PROGRAM TWO THOUSAND AND SIXTY SIX (GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK ETHER #5) The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang To witness two objects grasping each other, is the worst kind of aloneness. When the swans finally embrace, my beauty has a fissure. Where has it gone? What's fallen through it? A woman's life is a lament, between two swans. To care or not to care about beauty. To write is to either want to live or to want to die. But a poem requires both equally. How the wing of the white swan is redder. From its own bleeding from love. Or it picked up the blood of the black swan. In comforting, the swans seem to grow closer. But there's a scar at every attachment. How quickly the swans have found the scar. The way that hugging can look so similar to strangling, that I'm no longer sure which one I've been doing. The way everything becomes death's symbol, especially transformation. Especially love. The way poems, as you write them, seem to fly at first, but then fasten to the page, becoming arthritic before your eyes. The way we all appear to consent to our deaths. The way that death is always asterisked but beauty isn't. POINT THE WAY 1 1. Intro 2. The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) - Victoria Chang [2025] 3. Autumn In Rome (Alessandro Cicognini, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn) - Peggy Lee [The Fabulous Peggy Lee - Decca - 1963] 4. In a Little Spanish Town (Mabel Wayne, Sam Lewis, Joe Young) - The Blue Diamonds [Till We Meet Again - Decca - 1961] 5. Moonlight in Vermont (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) - Sam Cooke / Bumps Blackwell Orchestra [Songs By Sam Cooke - Keen - 1958] 6. The Last Time I Saw Paris (Kern-Hammerstein II) - Eartha Kitt [Love For Sale - Columbia - 1965] 7. talk 8. The Best Thing for You (Irving Berlin) - Ethel Merman With Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and Chorus [Songs From Call Me Madam - Decca - 1950] 9. That's All I Want From You (Fritz Rotter, M. Rotha) - Nina Simone [Baltimore - CTI Records - 1978] 10. I Could Write a Book (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - Betty Carter and Ray Bryant [Meet Betty Carter And Ray Bryant - Epic - 1956] 11. This Heart of Mine (Arthur Freed, Harry Warren) - Teddy Wilson Quintet, Vocals [Uncredited] - Maxine Sullivan [Shellac, 10", 78 RPM - Musicraft - 1945] 12. talk 13. The Song is You (Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II) - Ethel Ennis [Eyes For You - RCA Victor - 1964] 14. Till There was You (Meredith Wilson) - Etta Jones [Something Nice - Prestige - 1961] 15. Some Enchanted Evening (Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II) - Carl Mann [Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM - Phillips International - 1960] 16. On a Little Street in Singapore (Peter De Rose, Billy Hill) - Bob Dylan [Fallen Angels - Columbia - 2016] 17. talk 18. Just One of Those Things (Cole Porter) - Bryan Ferry [As Time Goes By - Virgin - 1999] 19. Fly Me to the Moon (Bart Howard) - Diana Krall [Live In Paris - Verve Records - 2002] 20. Love Me or Leave Me (Walter Donaldson) - Miles Davis All Stars [Walkin' - Prestige - 1957] 21. I Won't Dance (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach) - Ella Fitzgerald and Nelson Riddle [Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson - Verve Records - 1962] POINT THE WAY 2 22. talk 23. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (Billy Rose, Fats Waller, Harry Link) - Annette Hanshaw accomp. by The New Englanders [Shellac, 10", 78 RPM - Diva - 1929] 24. (I've Got a) Crush on You (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - Sammy Davis Jr. with Guitar by Mundell Lowe [Mood To Be Wooed - Decca - 1958] 25. They Didn't Believe Me (Jerome Kern, Herbert Reynolds) - Dinah Washington with Quincy Jones and His Orchestra [The Swingin' Miss "D" - EmArcy - 1957] 26. Ain't That a Kick in the Head (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) - Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra [Swingin' - Self-Released - 2001] 27. talk 28. You Stepped Out of a Dream (Gus Kahn, Nacio Herb Brown) - Nat 'King' Cole [Nat 'King' Cole Sings For Two In Love - Capitol Records - 1953] 29. I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You) (Una Mae Carlisle, Robert Sour) - Louis Jordan [Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM - Warwick - 1961] 30. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (Billy Strayhorn) - Roland Kirk [Left & Right - Atlantic - 1969] 31. Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) (Irving Berlin) - Don McLean [For the Memories 2 - Interfusion - 1987] 32. talk 33. Comes Once in a Lifetime (Jule Styne, Adolph Green, Betty Comden) - Judy Garland [The Garland Touch - Capitol Records - 1962] 34. It’s a Most Unusual Day (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson) - Beverly Kenney [Beverly Kenney Sings for Playboys - Decca - 1958] 35. Let’s Not Waste a Moment (Jerry Herman) - Robert Weede [Milk and Honey - The Original Broadway Cast Recording - RCA Victor - 1961] 36. Pick Yourself Up (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra [Shellac, 10", 78 RPM - Brunswick - 1936] 37. Grass, 1967 - Victoria Chang [2023] [With My Back to the World - Farrar, Straus & Giroux - 2024] 38. Outro DJ: Charles Cicirella Thursday, October 9, 2025 Cleveland, Ohio Artwork included ENJOY! ONWARD-FORWARD-INFINITE