May the Fourth be with you!

Join me this morning on WPRB, as we listen to music by John Williams performed by the FilmHarmonic Brass. It’s one of at least 11 recent releases we’ll enjoy, with composers spanning from Robert Schumann to Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw and performers ranging from the Philadelphia-based choral ensemble The Crossing to Yo-Yo Ma.

We’ll also have a couple of special guests in the studio. At 9:00, Clipper Erickson, piano, will drop by to share music from his new release of instrumental works by Laurie Altman. Erickson will be performing music by R. Nathaniel Dett and Modest Mussorgsky in recital at Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton on Saturday at 5 p.m.

At 10:00 this morning, I’ll be joined by composer Zhou Tian, whose “Broken Ink” will be given its US premiere by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rossen Milanov, at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on Sunday at 4 p.m. Our conversation will be followed by a broadcast of Zhou’s brilliantly orchestrated Concerto for Orchestra, written for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. (As an added bonus, tune in early, around 6:15, to hear Zhou’s “Morning after the Deluge,” performed by the Society for New Music.)

It will be raining new releases, hallelujah, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Après le déluge, c’est Classic Ross Amico.