By the beard of Rimsky-Korsakov! I just discovered, quite by accident, that today is the third anniversary of the creation of Classic Ross Amico. Thank you all for reading my page!
PHOTO: So kind of you to remember, Liszt.
Category: Daily Dispatch
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Walton Bennett Biggs Birthday Music
Okay, kids! Get ready to celebrate the birthdays of Sir William Walton, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, and E. Power Biggs today. In our last hour together, we’ll have some English music for children. All that and more, coming your way from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.
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Haydn Anniversary Celebration on WPRB
Tomorrow morning, on the eve of the anniversary of the birth of Franz Joseph Haydn (on March 31, 1732), we’ll anticipate the great day with music inspired by Haydn, music by Haydn’s colleagues, and rarely-heard works by Haydn himself.
Other composers will include Johannes Brahms, Norman Dello Joio, Marcel Grandjany, Roman Hoffstetter, Anton Kraft, Andre Previn, Maurice Ravel, Johann Peter Salomon, Alfred Schnittke, Ananda Sukarlan, and Joseph Weigl, Haydn’s godson. We’ll even have a piano concerto by Haydn Wood, who was named for Haydn by his music-mad parents, though they pronounced it “Hayden.”
At 10:00, I’ll be joined by members of Boheme Opera NJ, who will talk a little bit about the company’s upcoming production of “Lucia di Lammermoor,” which will be performed at The College of New Jersey’s TCNJ-Kendall Hall on April 7 at 8 p.m. and April 9 at 3 p.m., so we might just hear a selection or two by Donizetti, as well.
Otherwise, it will be a prolonged game of Haydn seek, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Join me for a full morning of hidden Haydn, on Classic Ross Amico.
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PRISM Quartet & Elgar on WWFM
I hope you’ll join me for another afternoon of sax and violins.
We’ll begin with today’s Noontime Concert, featuring the PRISM Quartet. The ensemble will perform transcriptions, by William Bolcom, Lawrence Dillon, and Salvatore Sciarrino, of works by Schumann, Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Josquin, Chopin, Scriabin, Gershwin, and Cole Porter. The program was recorded at New York’s The DiMenna Center for Classical Music on January 7.
The PRISM Quartet’s next concerts, celebrating the release of its new album, “Paradigm Lost,” will take place on April 1 at 7:30 p.m., at The National Opera Center in New York, and April 2 at 3:00 p.m., at settlement music school- Mary Louise Curtis Branch in Philadelphia. You can find out more at prismquartet.com.
Then we’ll have Sir Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto, suitable music, I think, for a day with weather emulating that of the British Isles. We’ll be donning our Mackintoshes, when you join me from noon to 4 p.m., on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.
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Samuel Ramey Celebrates 75 Years!
Oh my! I just realized that today is the 75th birthday of Samuel Ramey! 75? How can that be?
Ramey as Verdi’s “Attila”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZZdQkXZt8
As Boito’s “Mefistofele”:
As Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”:
As “L” Toreador:
Happy birthday, “Red Daddy.”*
*Coined by Ramey’s son, not me.
http://www.npr.org/2009/05/14/103854868/samuel-ramey-bad-guy-bass-of-opera
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