I hope you’re enjoying the show this morning. At 9:00, we’ll have a special visitor. Benedikt von Schroder will drop by to fill us in on upcoming events at The Princeton Festival, which runs through June 25. Then it’s back to spinning records until 11:00, as we continue with Vinyl Week, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.
Category: Daily Dispatch
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VOICES Chorale Farewell Concert Princeton
Lyn Ransom will conclude 30 years as artistic director of VOICES Chorale with a concert tomorrow night at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. On the program will be Brahms’ “Ein Deutsches Requiem” and Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana.” Soprano Rochelle Ellis, a longtime VOICES collaborator – she’ll be one of the soloists in the Requiem – will drop by to tell us more about this special event at 10:00 this morning. Then we’ll keep spinning the records until 11, as we continue with Vinyl Week on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.
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Grieg Birthday Broadcast on WWFM
It’s Grieg to me!
Join me today for music by the great Norwegian master on his birthday anniversary, including a knock-out performance of his Piano Concerto with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. We’ll also have music to mark the births of Franz Danzi, Guy Ropartz, Robert Russell Bennett, and Otto Luening.
There’s Norway you’ll want to miss this show! Be with me from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Princeton Festival Baroque Orchestra Concerts
Goin’ for Baroque:
The Princeton Festival Baroque Orchestra will spread its wings in three concerts, which will take place over a little more than a week.
This year, for the first time, principals of the ensemble will come together for a chamber music program on June 17. Personnel will include the orchestra’s concertmaster, Juan Carlos Zamudio, violinist Reynaldo Patino, violist Maria Romero, cellist Anna Steinhoff, contrabassist Eric Fisher, and harpsichordist Gregory Geehern.
Reflective of the broader festival, the concert will feature lesser-heard works by Heinrich Biber, Johann Rosenmüller, and Domenico Gabrielli, alongside heavy hitters Dietrich Buxtehude, George Frideric Handel, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The full ensemble will convene on June 21 to present music by Handel, Alessandro Stradella, Johann Adolph Hasse, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Both concerts will take place at Princeton Abbey And Cemetery.
Then, on June 24, the group will participate in a concert with chorus and orchestra. Dr. Jan Harrington will share the podium with conductors from the festival’s conducting masterclass. The program will include Handel’s Chandos Anthem 11a, “Let God Arise,” Antonio Vivaldi’s “Kyrie,” RV 587, Claudio Monteverdi’s “Beatus Vir,” and Jan Dismas Zelenka’s “Miserere.” That concert will be held at Miller Chapel on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Read more about the Princeton Festival Baroque Orchestra and festival artistic director Richard Tang Yuk in my article in this week’s edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo:
http://www.princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?Itemid=6&key=6-14-17baroque
The Princeton Festival runs through June 25. More information and a complete schedule are posted at princetonfestival.org.
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Flag Day on The Classical Network
You’re a Grand Old Flag.
We celebrate Old Glory on Flag Day on The Classical Network, with Antonin Dvořák’s rarely-heard cantata, “The American Flag,” and Philadelphia composer and arranger Hershy Kay’s John Philip Sousa ballet, “Stars and Stripes.”
We’ll also mark the birthday anniversaries of composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, conductor Rudolf Kempe, and tenor John McCormack.
Join me as proudly we hail, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
Did you know, the current star pattern for the American Flag was designed by a 17 year-old? More facts for Flag Day here:
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