Carl Hemmingsen and I have been training hard in order to form a successful tag team for your afternoon commute.

Carl will hold you as if in a half nelson of continuous musical pleasure until 5 p.m. Then I’ll be over the ropes to execute a classical camel clutch, in celebration of the birthdays today of conductor Rudolf Kempe, composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and tenor John McCormack.

In the 6:00 hour, watch out for a slingshot suplex in the form of the “Yellow River Concerto,” an artifact of China’s Cultural Revolution – this to mark the birthday of pianist Lang Lang. We’ll break the birthday lock with “Broken Ink,” a colorfully orchestrated work that strives for almost cinematic grandeur, by Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian.

I hope you’ll join Carl and me for a tag team championship smackdown, this Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org