Surprise! Get ready for SEVEN HOURS of Classic Ross Amico today, as I fill in for my colleague, Carl Hemmingsen, early this afternoon on The Classical Network; then stick around for my usual late afternoon air shift.

I’ll be celebrating a number of notable birthdays along the way, with symphonies by Jan Kalivoda (a.k.a. Johann Kalliwoda) and Charles-Marie Widor, a complete ballet of Léo Delibes, and a nod to guitarist Andrés Segovia.

At 6:00, I’ll be your host for “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies. This week, we’ll salute actor Kirk Douglas, who died on February 5 at the age of 103. We’ll hear selections from “Spartacus” (Alex North), “The Bad and the Beautiful” (David Raksin), “Lust for Life” (Miklós Rózsa), and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (Paul J. Smith).

First, on today’s Noontime Concert, once again, we’ll travel to the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, for another Concerts on the Slope. Concerts on the Slope was founded in 2012 to present top-notch chamber music performances featuring rising young artists from New York City and around the world. Today’s broadcast emanates from St. John’s Episcopal Church. On the program will be works by Andy Akiho, Nick DiBernardino, Thomas Kotcheff, David Crowell, Dave Molk, and Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe, performed by Sandbox Percussion.

There’s plenty of room in the box for everyone. Just don’t get sand in my sandwich, as I’ll need all the fuel I can get, from 12 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.