O cruel, cruel 2016. You’ve robbed us of so many wonderful artists.

Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we remember just a few of them, including, among others, composers Pierre Boulez, Karel Husa, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Steven Stucky, conductors Nicholas Harnoncourt and Sir Neville Marriner, guitarist Alirio Diaz, pianist Zoltan Kocsis, countertenor Russell Oberlin, and cellist Heinrich Schiff.

Of perhaps local interest will be Marcel Farago, longtime cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, who also happened to be a composer, clarinetist Arne Running, who performed with the Riverside Symphonia,based in Lambertville, who was also a composer, and harpsichordist Temple Painter.

These remembrances will take place from 6 to 9:00 EST. At 9:00, I will be joined by special guest Gail Wein, president of Classical Music Communications, who will talk a little bit about what she does and play from some of the CDs she’s been enjoying recently.

We’ll bid good riddance to 2016, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11:00 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Let’s pray that 2017 has less of a sting, on Classic Ross Amico.

More about Classical Music Communications here:

http://www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/