Any “Peaks” freaks out there? You might be interested in this fantasy on Angelo Badalamenti’s music for the cult classic “Twin Peaks,” performed by the Dover String Quartet:
Also, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np1Qo8CsW00
Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer’s theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgXLEM8MhJo
The classic opening:
Louise Farrenc was the only female on the faculty of the Paris Conservatory during the whole of the 19th century. Of course, she was only allowed to teach women, but she fought for, and eventually received, equal pay.
Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network, on her birthday anniversary, as we listen to her Symphony No. 3. We’ll also mark the birthdays of “Godzilla” composer Akira Ifukube, countertenor Alfred Deller, mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett, the “English Gershwin” Billy Mayerl, and French Baroque master Marin Marais.
The afternoon will begin with a visit from Chiu-Tze Lin, music director of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra. She’ll drop by to talk about this Sunday’s season finale, which will take place at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro. The concert will feature winners of the orchestra’s 2017 Young Artists Competition and a performance of “The Moldau” from Bedřich Smetana’s masterpiece of Czech nationalism, “Ma Vlast.”
I hope you’ll join me on your afternoon commute (hopefully you won’t be driving all the way from Bohemia), from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
PHOTO: Chiu-Tze Lin conducts the Bravura Philharmonic
Tomorrow, get ready for a ton of princely music on WPRB, as we kick off Princeton University Reunions Weekend with a morning full of works composed or performed by Princeton faculty and alumni.
Needless to say, Princeton University has had an exceptionally rich musical history, between the mid-century experimentalists, the visiting professors and talented students from around the world, and at least two Pulitzer Prize winners (three if you count Milton Babbitt’s lifetime achievement award). The scene remains vibrant, and we’ll hear works representative of Princeton’s current faculty composers and performers. Music by Babbitt, Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, and Roger Sessions will be presented cheek-by-jowl with that of Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns, Isaac Albéniz, and Benjamin Britten.
We’ll have the eye of The Tiger, or at least his or her ear, as we present music composed and performed by Princeton University faculty and alumni, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Orange is the color of our true love’s hair, on Classic Ross Amico.
You’ll find more about this year’s Reunions, including a complete schedule of events, when following this link:
Are you a fan of “The Avengers?” No, not Iron Man, Captain America, and Hulk, but Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.
If so, perhaps you’d be interested to join me this afternoon on The Classical Network to hear a symphony by the series’ composer, Laurie Johnson. His “Symphony (Synthesis)” achieves what few works of the so-called Third Stream ever do: successfully unite elements of jazz with classical symphonic form. And yes, as an encore, we’ll enjoy Johnson’s snazzy “Avengers” theme.
We’ll also celebrate the birthdays today of composer Riccardo Zandonai, clarinetist Benny Goodman, harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, and pianist Zoltan Kocsis. Since Glenn Smith will be hosting today’s concert broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT – an organ recital from last year’s The Princeton Festival with Kristiaan Seynhave, which will air in place of our usual Noontime Concert – we’ll have a clean slate from noon to 4.
Jolly good, then. Grab your umbrella and bowler, and join me on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
If the rain is keeping you indoors on this Memorial Day, consider tuning in to The Classical Network this afternoon for some musical remembrances of those who laid down their lives in war. We’ll also have a nostalgic diversion by Samuel Barber, who served in the U.S. Army Air Force; an operatic intermezzo by Enrique Granados, who died after his ship was torpedoed by a German submarine; and nods to the birthday anniversaries of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Isaac Albeniz, and Frederick Septimus Kelly, who survived injury at Gallipoli only to be killed on the Somme.
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
More about “In Flanders Fields” and the history of the poppy as “flower of remembrance” here:
http://www.womensoutdoornews.com/2017/05/memorial-day-flanders-fields/
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