Flip-flops should only be worn at the beach. I make that proclamation while sitting here, dressed in my Sea Monkey garb.

I hope you’ll join me this Thursday morning for music inspired by the sea and the shore, with a few shanties tossed into the chowder. We’ll 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 Paul Gilson’s “The Sea,” a work that Claude Debussy obviously had very much in mind when he went to compose “La Mer.”

I’ll be picking my teeth with my trident this morning, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. It’s all that swimming gives me this physique, on Classic Ross Amico.