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Remembering Artists Lost in 2016 on WPRB

O cruel, cruel 2016. You’ve robbed us of so many wonderful artists.

Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we remember just a few of them, including, among others, composers Pierre Boulez, Karel Husa, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Steven Stucky, conductors Nicholas Harnoncourt and Sir Neville Marriner, guitarist Alirio Diaz, pianist Zoltan Kocsis, countertenor Russell Oberlin, and cellist Heinrich Schiff.

Of perhaps local interest will be Marcel Farago, longtime cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, who also happened to be a composer, clarinetist Arne Running, who performed with the Riverside Symphonia,based in Lambertville, who was also a composer, and harpsichordist Temple Painter.

These remembrances will take place from 6 to 9:00 EST. At 9:00, I will be joined by special guest Gail Wein, president of Classical Music Communications, who will talk a little bit about what she does and play from some of the CDs she’s been enjoying recently.

We’ll bid good riddance to 2016, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11:00 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Let’s pray that 2017 has less of a sting, on Classic Ross Amico.

More about Classical Music Communications here:

http://www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/

December 29, 2016
Remembering Lost Musical Giants on WPRB
1. A year so merciless, it will take two weeks to memorialize its dead.
Join me this week and next on WPRB, as we celebrate the lost artistry of composers Leslie Bassett, Pierre Boulez, Inocente Carreño, Marcel Farago, Karel Husa, Ursula Mamlok, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Arne Running and Steven Stucky, conductors Nicholas Harnoncourt, Louis Lane and Sir Neville Marriner, choral director Gregg Smith, flutist Arèle Nicolet, guitarist Alirio Diaz, pianist Zoltán Kocsis, cellists Jules Eskin and Heinrich Schiff, countertenor Russell Oberlin, harmonica player Toots Thielemans, harpsichordist Temple Painter, and the Red Army Choir.

These musical remembrances will air this morning, from 6 to 9, and next Thursday morning, from 6 to 11.

At 9:00 this morning, I will be joined by special guest Gail Wein, president of Classical Music Communications, who will talk a little bit about what she does and play from some of the CDs she’s been enjoying recently. Some of those will include music by Aaron Copland, Ben Johnston, Steven Mackey, Astor Piazzolla, and Louis Vierne.

It will be a full morning by anyone’s standards. We’ll have our fill, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wrpb.com. I’ve had it up to here, on Classic Ross Amico.

More about Classical Music Communications here:

http://www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/
December 29, 2016
WPRB Remembering Artists & Classical Music

So far, this morning on WPRB, we’ve been remembering artists who died in 2016. We’ll pick up the thread with Part II, which will air next Thursday, January 5, from 6 to 11 a.m.

For the remainder of this morning, we’ll shift gears, starting at 9:00, when I’m joined by Gail Wein, president of Classical Music Communications. Gail will talk a little bit about what she does and the artists she represents. We’ll also play from some of the CDs she’s been enjoying recently. Some of those will include music by Aaron Copland, Ben Johnston, Steve Mackey, Astor Piazzolla, and Louis Vierne.

We’ll leave the dead, for the time being, and keep it lively until 11:00, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

More about Classical Music Communications here:

http://www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/

Steven Mackey’s “Stumble to Grace,” with pianist Orli Shaham, will be among our featured works, between 9 and 11:00 EST, on WPRB.

December 29, 2016
Post-Christmas Classical Hump Day Birthday Mix

Wednesday afternoon. It’s a holiday hump day.

The Christmas music is mostly passed, and it’s not quite yet New Year’s. I am laboring under a post-Christmas fog brought on by multiple days of sleep-deprivation. Best simply to celebrate the birthdays today of German Romantic composer Julius Rietz, the late Venezuelan master Inocente Carreño (who died in June), and Mannheim composer Christian Cannabich.

I’m sure there will also be something for Hanukkah along the way. I may even share selections from one or two of my stocking stuffers.

If you’re at home this week and have the luxury to kick back, you may find something conducive to your relaxation, when you tune in this afternoon between 4 and 7:00 EST to WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

December 28, 2016
Carrie Fisher Star Wars Holiday Tribute

A day after the passing of Carrie Fisher, here’s a musical tribute I found from the excruciating “Star Wars Holiday Special” (1978), which George Lucas wishes the world would forget, but lives on in infamy on YouTube. Fisher, of course, was the daughter of singing parents Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. She was 60 years-old.

Kenny Baker, who created the role of R2-D2, died earlier this year, at the age of 81. R.I.P.

December 28, 2016

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