This morning on WPRB, we are consumed by OLYMPIC FEEEEEEEEEEEE-VAH! Or maybe it’s just the Zika virus. It’s hard to tell, as we celebrate the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
We’ll hear Olympic fanfares and occasional music composed by Leo Arnaud, Angelo Badalamenti, Robin Frost, Philip Glass, Basil Poledouris, Richard Strauss (his notorious “Olympic Hymn” for the 1936 Berlin games), Mikis Theodorakis, and John Williams.
We’ll also hear works by Brazilian composers Antônio Carlos Gomes , Camargo Guarnieri and Heitor Villa-Lobos, alongside music inspired by Brazil by smitten tourists Darius Milhaud, Ottorino Respighi, Martin Butler and David Gunn.
Also featured will be Michael Torke’s “Javelin,” co- commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games; John Harbison’s “Olympic Dances;” and bona fide medal-winning works by Olympic composers Josef Suk and Rudolph Simonsen.
We’ll be testing positive for caffeine, from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Our motto has always been “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” on “Classic Ross Amico.”

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