1. A year so merciless, it will take two weeks to memorialize its dead.

Join me this week and next on WPRB, as we celebrate the lost artistry of composers Leslie Bassett, Pierre Boulez, Inocente Carreño, Marcel Farago, Karel Husa, Ursula Mamlok, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Arne Running and Steven Stucky, conductors Nicholas Harnoncourt, Louis Lane and Sir Neville Marriner, choral director Gregg Smith, flutist Arèle Nicolet, guitarist Alirio Diaz, pianist Zoltán Kocsis, cellists Jules Eskin and Heinrich Schiff, countertenor Russell Oberlin, harmonica player Toots Thielemans, harpsichordist Temple Painter, and the Red Army Choir.

These musical remembrances will air this morning, from 6 to 9, and next Thursday morning, from 6 to 11.

At 9:00 this morning, 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. Some of those will include music by Aaron Copland, Ben Johnston, Steven Mackey, Astor Piazzolla, and Louis Vierne.

It will be a full morning by anyone’s standards. We’ll have our fill, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wrpb.com. I’ve had it up to here, on Classic Ross Amico.

More about Classical Music Communications here:

http://www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/