Category: Daily Dispatch

  • Classical Music Radio Support Elmer Bernstein Special

    Classical Music Radio Support Elmer Bernstein Special

    Thank you all for your financial and moral support yesterday. While I doubt it will do much for me in terms of ensuring regular live air shifts, it was heartening to see so many familiar names. At the very least, your contributions help maintain a classical music presence on the radio, including specialty shows like “Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord.”

    Speaking of “Picture Perfect,” the show will air at a special time this week, on account of the pledge drive. I hope you’ll join me this afternoon at 4 ET for a selection of film scores by Elmer Bernstein, including “The Magnificent Seven,” “The Age of Innocence,” “Stripes” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

    Next week, “Picture Perfect” will return to its regular time, Friday evening at 6. You can always enjoy it at http://www.wwfm.org. Shows are archived as webcasts for approximately three months following broadcast.

  • Princeton Festival’s Porgy & Bess Review

    Princeton Festival’s Porgy & Bess Review

    If you’re interested, here’s my review of The Princeton Festival’s fine “Porgy and Bess” in today’s Trenton Times. Remaining performances take place at McCarter Theatre Center tonight at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 3.

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/06/review_princeton_festivals_por.html

    Also, Westminster Choir College’s CoOPERAtive Program is offering three weeks worth of recitals and master classes involving emerging artists at Bristol Chapel and the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center. All events are free and open to the public. You can find out more about it by following the link. (As is so often the case, those peculiar, online paragraph breaks are not mine!)

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/06/westminster_choir_colleges_coo.html

    PHOTO: Kenneth Overton, as Jake, sings “A Woman is a Sometime Thing”

  • Live Radio Shift Pledges Needed Now

    Live Radio Shift Pledges Needed Now

    LIVE AIR SHIFT ALERT! I’ve been given my first live shift since being removed from the weekend mornings at the end of March. I’ll be on tomorrow from 1 to 4 p.m., asking for your pledges of support. It may be my last live shift for quite some time. My understanding is that I will still be selecting all my own music.

    Because of the pledge drive, “Picture Perfect” will be heard this week on Saturday, at 4 p.m ET. In keeping with the drive’s Americana theme, the focus will be on the film scores of Elmer Bernstein (including “The Magnificent Seven” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”). “The Lost Chord” will air, as usual, Sunday night at 10, and will feature an hour of vintage Gershwin recordings.

    Remember, the station really needs the dough. Even if you’re not happy with some of the changes, it’s still 24 hours of classical music. Also, WWFM remains the distributor of specialty shows like “Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord.”

    Feel free to express your likes and dislikes, but remember a generous pledge will get your opinions taken more seriously. Do not hold out hopes that I will be restored to weekend mornings. Unless a big time patron steps forward by the end of the month to subsidize my chair, it ain’t going to happen.

    Your pledges, especially between 1 and 4 tomorrow, but anytime, with perhaps a kind word for your humble host, are greatly appreciated.

    Listen and donate here: http://www.wwfm.org.

    Thank you for supporting The Classical Network.

  • Eli Wallach Tuco dies at 98

    Eli Wallach Tuco dies at 98

    So long, Tuco.

    Eli Wallach (1915-2014).

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html?_r=0

    “When you have to shoot, shoot.”

    Searching for gold to Morricone’s magnificent music:

  • Eli Wallach Tribute on TCM Monday

    Eli Wallach Tribute on TCM Monday

    Turner Classic Movies: TCM has announced an 11-hour Eli Wallach tribute, to run on Monday, beginning at 9 a.m.

    Featured films will include:

    9:00 AM Kisses for My President
    11:00 AM Act One
    1:00 PM How the West Was Won
    3:45 PM The Misfits
    6:00 PM Baby Doll

    Sorry to say, Don Siegel’s “The Lineup” will not be among them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgkh-nei9hw

    I wish they would have given him the prime time treatment. He certainly deserves it.

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