Nocturnes, gardens, getaways and plenty of water – that’s Classic Ross Amico’s prescription for summer survival this week.

Perhaps you are fond of summer. Or perhaps, like me, you live in a third-floor walk-up in the middle of a paved-over hell-hole, in which case you probably harbor more ambivalent feelings. To be fair, yesterday was actually quite lovely.

Either way, I hope you’ll join me this morning for music related in some way to summer and summery diversions. We’ll have vacation music, works about leisurely pursuits, water music, and aural evocations of perfumed breezes wafting through gently swaying greenery.

Members of So Percussion will drop by in the 8:00 hour to talk a bit about their own positive contribution to the season, the So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI), now in progress at locations in and around Princeton University. The two week program for college-age percussionists and composers is chock-full of free concerts, some of them in very public places, such as Princeton Record Exchange, Small World Coffee, and Albert Hinds Plaza. If you haven’t looked into it, you can find more information and the complete schedule here:

http://sopercussion.com/sosiconcerts

SoSI runs through August 1.

It’s only two months until autumn. Think cool thoughts and stay hydrated with Classic Ross Amico. I’ll be poring over the Farmer’s Almanac from 6 to 11 a.m. ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com.

PHOTO: No one captures the creepy agonies and ecstasies of summer quite like Edvard Munch