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  • High Holy Days Music on WPRB

    High Holy Days Music on WPRB

    Coming up in the next hour will be “The Chagall Windows,” English composer John McCabe’s luminous, strange and beautiful impressions of the stained glass tableaux located at the synagogue of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

    We’ll also hear Darius Milhaud’s studies for string quartet on themes from the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgies, as he knew them in his native Provence, and David Stock’s “Yizkor.”

    It’s all music by Jewish composers or on Jewish themes for the High Holy Days this morning until 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

  • Steve Reich Tehillim on WPRB Radio

    Steve Reich Tehillim on WPRB Radio

    Last minute programming decision!

    In honor of Steve Reich’s 80th birthday (which fell on Monday), and to tie in with our observance of the Jewish High Holy Days, I’ve decided to play “Tehillim,” the composer’s setting of four Hebrew psalms, in the 10:00 hour (EDT). You can hear it this morning on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

  • Jewish High Holy Days Music on WPRB

    Jewish High Holy Days Music on WPRB

    Already three days into the Jewish New Year, and all I can think to say is, “Shofar, so good.” If a blast on the ram’s horn sends you into ecstasies, have I got a show for you!

    Tomorrow morning on WPRB, there will be shofars aplenty, as we listen to music by Jewish composers and/or on Jewish themes, in honor of the High Holy Days.

    There will be works by composers such as Paul Ben-Haim, Herman Berlinski, Ernest Bloch, John Duffy, Lukas Foss, Louis Gesensway, John McCabe, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Schoenfield, David Stock and Jacob Weinberg.

    We’ll also uphold an annual WPRB tradition, initiated by Teri Noel Towe, of listening to Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei.”

    A number of these composers aren’t even Jewish – and a few of the pieces aren’t particularly “Jewish” sounding – but all of them pay tribute to the creativity and soulfulness of the Jewish experience.

    That’s music for the Days of Awe – the period from Rosh Hashanah (the New Year) through Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) – tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. The playlist will be totally Awesome, on Classic Ross Amico.

  • English Classics Rootham Bloch on WWFM

    English Classics Rootham Bloch on WWFM

    You know I’m crazy for the English stuff.

    Today is the birthday of Cyril Rootham (1875-1938), a classmate at London’s Royal College of Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. Rootham is known, if at all, for his choral and vocal music, but a sunny autumn afternoon, I think, is the perfect time to enjoy his disarming “Miniature Suite” for piano and orchestra. Think Gerald Finzi’s “Eclogue.” It’s very much of that ilk.

    We’ll also hear Ernest Bloch’s romantic and beautiful orchestral suite, “Three Jewish Poems,” as we continue our musical observance of the High Holy Days.

    Tune in between 4 and 7:00 p.m. EDT to enjoy these and more, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

    PHOTOS: Bloch (top) and Rootham share a smoke

  • Skrowaczewski Birthday Broadcast Bruckner & Ravel

    Skrowaczewski Birthday Broadcast Bruckner & Ravel

    With all the salutes to Sir Neville Marriner, who died on Sunday at the age of 92, it’s easy to overlook the fact that yesterday was the 93rd birthday of conductor and composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Interestingly, both Methuselahian maestros served as one-time music directors of the Minnesota Orchestra – as powerful an argument as any for the health benefits of fried food on a stick. Join me this afternoon, as we honor Skrowaczewski with his recordings of Bruckner and Ravel.

    First, it will be another Noontime Concert with the Lenape Chamber Ensemble. The program, which was presented on July 23rd at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa., will feature a string trio by Beethoven, the Violin Sonata by Francis Poulenc, and a rarely-heard piano sextet by a 15 year-old Felix Mendelssohn. The Lenape Chamber Ensemble is made up of crackerjack musicians from Philadelphia and New York. You can find out more about the group and its upcoming concerts, the next of which will take place this weekend, at lenapechamberensemble.org.

    Tune in today from noon to 4 p.m. EDT. The musical selections will range from chamber works to Bruckner, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

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