Sure, we’re looking ahead to Labor Day this morning, but not all of the music will be “labor intensive.” I hope you’ll join me for music by a bunch of neglected dead white guys from the Greatest Generation of American Composers, and maybe a few women (also dead, alas). In addition, we’ll have contributions from those still toiling, composers like Paul Lansky and John Corigliano.

Poor David Diamond got short shrift on the 100th anniversary of his birth, since everyone else seemingly played everything in advance of his July 9 birthday. Enough time has passed that I can now in some small way make amends. We’ll have his best known piece, the early “Rounds for String Orchestra,” and one of his later works, the adagio from the Symphony No. 11 – the only part of the symphony so far to be recorded.

Certainly a highlight will be one of the symphonies of Lukas Foss, drawn from a new recording of the complete set of four, performed by Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP).

Labor-oriented pieces will include “John Henry” by Aaron Copland, “Skyscrapers” by John Alden Carpenter, and “Flivver Ten Million” – about automobile manufacturing – by Frederick Shepherd Converse. In addition, Princeton’s own Paul Robeson will sing the labor anthem “Joe Hill.”

Pull up a girder and get out your Stanley thermos. I’ll be doing the heavy-lifting on Class Ross Amico, today from 6 to 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com.