Classic Ross Amico doesn’t take vacations. Nor does he much care for the beach. That said, for this first week of August, it seems like as good a time as any to celebrate surf and sand.

Join me this Thursday morning to hear Mikalojus Ciurlionis’ “The Sea,” Ernest Chausson’s “Poème de l’amour et de la mer,” Cyril Scott’s “Neptune,” Howard Hanson’s “Bold Island Suite,” and Elie Siegmeister’s cycle of piano pieces “Sunday in Brooklyn” (with its concluding movement, “Coney Island”). In addition, there is bound to be a sea shanty or two.

Brace yourself for plenty of salt air and bandshells, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Sea you real soon, on Classic Ross Amico.

Great composers hit the beach: (counter-clockwise from top): George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini, and Benjamin Britten