If you haven’t tuned in to WPRB yet this morning (and you really should), we are saluting the Groundhog this morning with music evocative of the animal kingdom. Sure, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter, but he’s only right 39 percent of the time. Even so, he deserves our love, because he’s a groundhog.

Yet to come: Lucas Richman: Conductor/Composer’s “Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant,” after witty animal poems by Jack Prelutsky, which will introduce us to Ballpoint Penguins, Shoehornets, Zipperpotamuses, and the Clocktopus, among others. Richman will conduct the Princeton Symphony Orchestra Saturday Evening POPS! concert at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium this weekend. Broadway phenom Sierra Boggess will celebrate the musical, in a program that will trace its transition from stage to screen and back again.

At 10:00 this morning, we’ll shift gears, as I will be joined by Saad Haddad, Composer. Haddad’s fascinating “Manarah” was heard on a PSO concert this past weekend. He’ll be dropping by to share more of his music and to talk about his use of electronic processing to suggest the sounds of his Middle Eastern heritage.

There’s plenty yet to come today. Join me in hibernation, between now and 11:00 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

PHOTO: Saad Haddad (left) with PSO Music Director Rossen Milanov