WPRB: Birthdays, Riley, and Remembering Schuller

WPRB: Birthdays, Riley, and Remembering Schuller

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Already entering my fourth week at WRPB Princeton, and I am grappling with the slavish adherence to birthdays. Obviously being on only once a week, I can’t celebrate everyone, and with my over-reliance on the “major” figures, much music by worthy composers has been passing me by. Failing to acknowledge retired Princeton professor Paul Lansky last Thursday (whose birthday fell on the actual day, no less) may have been the proverbial last straw.

Be that as it may, we’ll touch on what we can tomorrow, though perhaps downplaying the birthday angle more in favor of interesting programming. So we will have music of Terry Riley, who turns 80 today. We’ll also have a work by the impish Kurt Schwertsik, whom I had the privilege to interview at a concert held at Austrian Cultural Forum New York a few years back. Schwertsik turns 80 tomorrow.

Of course, we’ll remember Gunther Schuller, who died earlier this week. And, I don’t know, maybe I’ll even drop in a little James Horner, though I’m planning a more extensive memorial for “Picture Perfect,” to air on http://www.wwfm.org on July 3 at 6 p.m. ET.

Daniel Spalding, music director of the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra, will drop by around 10:00 to talk a bit about his orchestra and its appearance in a free concert at Mercer County Park Pavilion, Sunday at 7:30 p.m., as part of this year’s Freedom Fest.

And yes, I’ll be sure to include something by Lansky, since I happen to like his music. I’m reluctant to promise too much and then not deliver, but trust me when I say that I’ll play what I can.

Keep it classy with Classic Ross Amico, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 a.m., at WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com.


PHOTO: Keeping it classy with Kurt Schwertsik


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