Get ready for today’s birthdays! Coming up between 4 and 6 pm EDT, we’ll have music by the great Dane Carl Nielsen. We’ll also hear from Otto Nicolai and Ingolf Dahl. Then stick around at 6 for “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies. More about that in just a bit. Kick back in your favorite chair and get your weekend started with WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Myth Movie Music Classical Mythology WWFM
Release the Kraken! It’s a mythological mash-up. Join me for music from movies inspired by classical mythology, including “Helen of Troy” (Max Steiner), “Clash of the Titans” (Laurence Rosenthal) “Hercules” (Pino Donaggio), and “Jason and the Argonauts” (Bernard Herrmann). It will be all the sandals you can handle, this Friday evening at 6 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Schumann’s Birthday Romantic Piano Concertos on WPRB
There will be a battery of Romantic piano concertos this morning on WPRB, as you can probably imagine, as we celebrate the birthday today of Robert Schumann. We’ll be enjoying some of Schumann’s own music, of course, but also representative works by figures he admired and promoted, some of whom numbered among the finest pianists of the day.
At 9:00, we’ll joined by Steven LaCosse, who will be stage directing Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio, ” for The Princeton Festival. He’ll tell us a little bit about the production, which will be presented at McCarter Theatre Center on June 18 & 25.
The highlight of the morning may very well be a rarely heard recording from 1954 of Schumann’s “Manfred,” after the dramatic poem of Lord Byron. The overture is rather well known, but Sir Thomas Beecham recorded the entire thing, with narrator, lending his characteristic Beecham touch not only to the performance, but in his editorial decisions, “livening it up,” as it were, with a part-song or two and adding a ballet.
Get ready for a five hour Romantic interlude, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. We’re ready to tickle some ivories, on Classic Ross Amico.
PHOTO: Robert and Clara Schumann get Romantic
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Schumann Birthday Celebration on The Classical Network
Now the Schumann is on the other foot.
Join us on The Classical Network, as we pick up our celebration of the birthday today of Robert Schumann. Among our featured works will be the rarely-heard Violin Concerto, with Elmar Oliveira the soloist. We’ll also mark the birthdays of Tomaso Albinoni, Erwin Schulhoff, and Emanuel Ax.
The afternoon will begin with a visit from Dr. Lyn Ransom, outgoing artistic director of VOICES Chorale. To cap her 30-year tenure with the ensemble, Ransom will conduct a farewell concert featuring soloists, chorus, and orchestra, in Johannes Brahms’ “Ein Deutsches Requiem” and Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana.” The concert, part of a VOICES gala weekend, will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on June 16 at 8 p.m.
The music is Romantic with a capital “R” today (when it’s not Baroque or Dadaist). If the Schumann fits, wear it, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Szell Järvi and Conductor Birthdays on WWFM
It’s a conductor’s holiday! I hope you’ll join me for recordings of triple-threat George Szell, on the anniversary of his birth. We’ll hear Szell as conductor, pianist, and composer. It’s also the 80th birthday of Neeme Järvi. We’ll have more conductors (or better) than you can shake a stick at, today from 4 to 7 p.m., on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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