For anyone interested in previewing this year’s nominees for Best Original Score, last week’s “Picture Perfect” has been posted as a webcast, as has this week’s “Oscar Party” of classic film themes. It’s a great way to kill two hours as you anticipate the Academy Awards.
Category: Daily Dispatch
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Classic Film Scores for Academy Awards Weekend
We’re heading into Academy Awards weekend. This week on “Picture Perfect” we’ll do our best to get you in the mood, with a baker’s dozen of classic film themes. We’ll hear music from “Gone With the Wind,” “Ben-Hur,” “The Lord of the Rings,” “Out of Africa,” “Exodus,” “Schindler’s List,” “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “Around the World in 80 Days,” “The Godfather Part II,” “Tom Jones,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Titanic” and “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.”
The 88th Academy Awards, need I say, will take place on Sunday night.
Join me this evening at 6:00 ET, with a repeat tomorrow morning at 6; or listen to it later as webcast at wwfm.org. I’ll try to exert my influence to get the sound file posted by Sunday, if you’d like to call up the stream for a little pre-Oscar fun. Last week’s show, devoted to this year’s nominees, has already been posted.
#AcademyAwards #Oscars #FilmMusic #FilmScores
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Otto-Werner Mueller Legendary Curtis Institute Conductor Passes
Sorry to be filling up your Facebook wall with so many posts today, but I just learned of the passing of Otto Werner Mueller. Mueller was one of the great conducting pedagogues, a giant in more ways than one, and a staple for many years at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music.
Here’s an appreciation posted on Norman Lebrecht’s blog:
No obituaries posted yet online.
PHOTO: Mueller towering over Riccardo Muti and Gary Graffman
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Westminster Arts Week: Princeton & Lawrenceville
The influence of Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts will be felt here, there, and everywhere over the course of the coming week.
Westminster Choir College will present its annual art song festival tonight and tomorrow. This year’s overarching theme will be “Songs of Fin-de-Siècle Paris and Vienna.” Lecture recitals will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Bristol Chapel on the college’s Princeton campus.
Repertoire will include works composed between 1885 and 1915 by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Chausson, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Alexander Zemlinsky.
A free symposium will be held there tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Westminster Choir College students will perform early songs of Webern.
Also on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and also free, Westminster Conservatory of Music faculty members will present a concert of French woodwind repertoire as part of the institution’s “Kaleidoscope Chamber Series.” The program, titled “Le Conservatoire: The Paris Conservatory and Its Impact on Wind Performance,” will take place at Gill Memorial Chapel on the Rider University campus in Lawrenceville.
On Sunday at 3 p.m., Westminster Conservatory will provide a showcase of its community ensembles and students at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. Participants will include the Westminster Community Orchestra and the Princeton Charter School/Westminster Conservatory Youth Orchestra, both conducted by Ruth Ochs; the Westminster Conservatory Children’s Chorus, conducted by Patricia Thel and Yvonne Macdonald; and winners of the Westminster Conservatory Concerto Competition: Marie Louise James, oboe; Alexis Peart, soprano; and Matthew Yuan, clarinet.
Finally, Westminster Choir will join the Westminster Festival Orchestra for a concert of Beethoven choral masterworks on March 4 at 8p.m. Joe Miller, Westminster Choir College’s director of choral activities, will conduct the Mass in C Major, and Drew Petersen will be the soloist in the popular “Choral Fantasy” for piano, chorus and orchestra. The program, titled “Romantic Genius,” will be performed at Princeton Meadow Church and Event Center.
Find out details in my article in today’s Trenton Times. Go, Westminster!
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/classical_music_westminster_ch_1.html
PHOTOS: Westminster Conservatory competition winners (clockwise from left) Marie Louise James, Alexis Peart, and Matthew Yuan
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WPRB’s All-Vinyl Week: Rare Grooves & Local Music
Vinyl, vinyl everywhere!
Music by contemporary composers released on the CRI label. Lesser known works, recorded by major artists on major labels, which have never been reissued. A long out-of-print DG recording of music by a Canadian master. The late Louis Lane conducting American music. Works by Philadelphia composers Paul Nordoff and Richard Yardumian. A cult classic featuring the songs of humpback whales.
These are some of the curiosities that I’ll be sharing with you this morning, as I comb the WPRB record library (leavened with a few choice albums from my own collection). It’s part of WPRB’s All-Vinyl Week. That’s right, WPRB is playing nothing but good old-fashioned vinyl through Sunday.
Ruth Ochs, music director of the Westminster Community Orchestra, will drop by around 9:00 to talk a little bit about the upcoming Westminster Conservatory of Music showcase concert, which will take place on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. The program will include performances by community ensembles, students and conservatory competition winners. Ochs is also conductor of the Princeton University Sinfonia.
Other than that, it all comes off the turntables this morning, from 6 to 11 ET on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We put the style in “stylus,” on Classic Ross Amico.
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