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Ladies, lords, and gentlepersons all…
Hearken ye to “Picture Perfect” this week for sweet airs from movies set in the Age of Chivalry.
Peradventure ye will encounter sounds and delights from “The Warlord” (Jerome Moross), “El Cid” (Miklós Rózsa), “Lionheart” (Jerry Goldsmith), and “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (Erich Wolfgang Korngold).
Verily, chivalry is not dead, this Friday evening at 6 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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I regret to announce that the conductor Jiři Bělohlávek has died at the age of 71. Bělohlávek was music director of the Czech Philharmonic from 1990 to 1992, and then again from 2010 to the time of his death. His contract had been extended this year through 2021-2022.
Bělohlávek was a high-profile champion of music from his native land. I was fortunate enough to see him conduct on several occasions, most memorably leading performances of Dvořák’s “Rusalka” and the “New World Symphony.” I met him, briefly, following the latter, but I got the impression that his English was not very good. On the same occasion, I met Dvořák’s grandson, who spoke no English at all, as far as I could tell. Ironically, the grandson (also named Antonin) died earlier this week, at the age of 88.
Join me this evening at 6:00 EDT, following a broadcast concert from The Princeton Festival with Concordia Chamber Players at 4 (for which Glenn Smith will be your host), when I’ll remember Bělohlávek with an hour of his recordings, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
His obituary in The Guardian:
PHOTO: Antonin Dvořák III (left) with Jiři Bělohlávek
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Lock up your daughters! 25,000 visitors are expected to converge on Princeton this weekend for Reunions 2017. This Thursday morning on WPRB, we acknowledge the impending influx of humanity and commensurate Tiger Pride with music composed and performed by Princeton University faculty and alumni.
Composers may include Princeton professors Milton Babbitt, Earl Kim, Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Bohuslav Martinu, and Roger Sessions, and students and alumni Peter Maxwell Davies, Caroline Shaw, and Julia Wolfe.
Performers may include Princeton University Chapel organist Eric Plutz, current ensemble-in-residence So Percussion, former ensemble-in-residence the Brentano Quartet, performance faculty members Geoffrey Burleson and Laura Oltman, conductor alumnus Gilbert Levine, and William H. Scheide’s Bach Aria Group.
As always, it depends on how much we are able to shoehorn in.
Reunions will commence even as I grace the airwaves, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Orange you glad you can stay home and enjoy the music? We’ll put a tiger in your tank, on Classic Ross Amico.
More about Reunions 2017 at the Alumni Association of Princeton University’s website:
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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:
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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
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