Great singers (Nicolai Gedda, Roberta Peters, Kurt Moll, Dmitri Hvorostovsky); notable conductors (Georges Prêtre, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Louis Frémaux, Jiří Bělohlávek); talented composers (Veljo Tormis, Francis Thorne, Gordon Langford, Godfrey Schroth); and outstanding instrumentalists (Gervase de Peyer, Paul Zukofsky, Zuzana Růžičková), including not one, but two concertmasters of the Berlin Philharmonic (Thomas Brandis, Rainer Kussmaul) – these are only some of those we lost in 2017.

This Thursday morning (and probably next) on WPRB, we’ll honor a good many artists who are no longer with us, but who, fortunately for us, left behind a wealth of recordings.

The focus will be on musicians who traded their instruments for the harp, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for Classic Ross Amico.