Okay, kids! Get ready to celebrate the birthdays of Sir William Walton, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, and E. Power Biggs today. In our last hour together, we’ll have some English music for children. All that and more, coming your way from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.
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Walton Bennett Biggs Birthday Music

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Classic Ross Amico Anniversary

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By the beard of Rimsky-Korsakov! I just discovered, quite by accident, that today is the third anniversary of the creation of Classic Ross Amico. Thank you all for reading my page!
PHOTO: So kind of you to remember, Liszt.
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Westminster Choir College Saved Sale Planned

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If you haven’t heard yet, Rider University has decided to keep Westminster Choir College intact, in Princeton. However, it plans to sell the college and/or its campus. This is certainly preferable to the alternative, with Westminster being dismantled and bits being assimilated into the Rider campus in Lawrenceville. Hopes are for a suitable buyer to step up within the next year. Anybody got $13 million?
http://wwfm.org/post/westminster-finds-reprieve-rider-vote-sell-programs-campus-together
The announcement came shortly after 2:00 this afternoon. This article appeared earlier today on the new WWFM – The Classical Network website:
http://wwfm.org/post/students-community-rally-save-westminster-choir-college
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Samuel Ramey Celebrates 75 Years!

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Oh my! I just realized that today is the 75th birthday of Samuel Ramey! 75? How can that be?
Ramey as Verdi’s “Attila”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZZdQkXZt8
As Boito’s “Mefistofele”:
As Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”:
As “L” Toreador:
Happy birthday, “Red Daddy.”*
*Coined by Ramey’s son, not me.
http://www.npr.org/2009/05/14/103854868/samuel-ramey-bad-guy-bass-of-opera
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PRISM Quartet & Elgar on WWFM

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I hope you’ll join me for another afternoon of sax and violins.
We’ll begin with today’s Noontime Concert, featuring the PRISM Quartet. The ensemble will perform transcriptions, by William Bolcom, Lawrence Dillon, and Salvatore Sciarrino, of works by Schumann, Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Josquin, Chopin, Scriabin, Gershwin, and Cole Porter. The program was recorded at New York’s The DiMenna Center for Classical Music on January 7.
The PRISM Quartet’s next concerts, celebrating the release of its new album, “Paradigm Lost,” will take place on April 1 at 7:30 p.m., at The National Opera Center in New York, and April 2 at 3:00 p.m., at settlement music school- Mary Louise Curtis Branch in Philadelphia. You can find out more at prismquartet.com.
Then we’ll have Sir Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto, suitable music, I think, for a day with weather emulating that of the British Isles. We’ll be donning our Mackintoshes, when you join me from noon to 4 p.m., on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.
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