Gervase de Peyer, longtime principal clarinetist of the London Symphony Orchestra and a founding member of the Melos Ensemble, died on Saturday at the age of 90. Join me this afternoon on WWFM, as we celebrate his artistry with recordings he made as a chamber musician and as a concerto soloist.

We’ll also observe birthday anniversaries of the great Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau; Austrian immigrant Karl Weigl, a pupil of Zemlinsky, who lived his final decade in the United States; and American composer Stephen Albert, who died too young, in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, at 52 years-old.

Variety is the spice of life – or death, as the case may be – from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.