Shall I compare thee to a rainy Thursday?

Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB as I remember William Shakespeare (1564-1616), in advance of his birthday anniversary on April 23.

We’ll hear music inspired by a number of his plays, including “Antony and Cleopatra,” “As You Like It,” “Hamlet,” “Measure for Measure,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Othello,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” and “The Tempest,” by composers such as Geoffrey Bush, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Gerald Finzi, Joseph Joachim, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Paul Moravec, Florent Schmitt, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Johan Wagenaar, Richard Wagner, and Sir William Walton.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have Classic Ross Amico thrust upon them.