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  • Toy Movie Music on Classical Network

    Toy Movie Music on Classical Network

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    With everyone still reeling from Christmas, I thought it would be appropriate to focus on music from movies about toys, including selections from “Citizen Kane” (shhh, don’t give it away), with music by Bernard Herrmann; “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” (it’s in the basement of the Alamo!), with music by Danny Elfman; “Toccata for Toy Trains” (Charles and Ray Eames love vintage toys), with music by Elmer Bernstein; and “Toy Story” (not much of a stretch there), with music by Randy Newman.

    There will be toys everywhere this week, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Friday evening at 6:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

  • Leon Bates Inspires New Year’s Resolutions

    Leon Bates Inspires New Year’s Resolutions

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    If you’re looking for the inspiration to stick to your New Year’s resolution, you need look no further than pianist Leon Bates. Bates, whose life has been enriched by both music and sports, is as disciplined as they come. The results are evident in a career that has been marked by unflagging energy and an unusual focus on physical fitness.

    Bates will join the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey for its annual New Year’s Eve concert this Saturday night at the Trenton War Memorial. The orchestra’s music director, Daniel Spalding will conduct a program of buoyant classics, including works by Franz von Suppé, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Leonard Bernstein, and Johann Strauss II. Bates will be the soloist in George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”

    Read more about this engaging pianist, too large a personality to be captured adequately in a newspaper article, in today’s Trenton Times.

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/12/classical_music_new_addition_t.html

    Please note: I do not write my own headlines.

  • WPRB Remembering Artists & Classical Music

    WPRB Remembering Artists & Classical Music

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    So far, this morning on WPRB, we’ve been remembering artists who died in 2016. We’ll pick up the thread with Part II, which will air next Thursday, January 5, from 6 to 11 a.m.

    For the remainder of this morning, we’ll shift gears, starting at 9:00, when I’m joined by Gail Wein, president of Classical Music Communications. Gail will talk a little bit about what she does and the artists she represents. We’ll also play from some of the CDs she’s been enjoying recently. Some of those will include music by Aaron Copland, Ben Johnston, Steve Mackey, Astor Piazzolla, and Louis Vierne.

    We’ll leave the dead, for the time being, and keep it lively until 11:00, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

    More about Classical Music Communications here:

    http://www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/

    Steven Mackey’s “Stumble to Grace,” with pianist Orli Shaham, will be among our featured works, between 9 and 11:00 EST, on WPRB.

  • Remembering Lost Musical Giants on WPRB

    Remembering Lost Musical Giants on WPRB

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    1. A year so merciless, it will take two weeks to memorialize its dead.

    Join me this week and next on WPRB, as we celebrate the lost artistry of composers Leslie Bassett, Pierre Boulez, Inocente Carreño, Marcel Farago, Karel Husa, Ursula Mamlok, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Arne Running and Steven Stucky, conductors Nicholas Harnoncourt, Louis Lane and Sir Neville Marriner, choral director Gregg Smith, flutist Arèle Nicolet, guitarist Alirio Diaz, pianist Zoltán Kocsis, cellists Jules Eskin and Heinrich Schiff, countertenor Russell Oberlin, harmonica player Toots Thielemans, harpsichordist Temple Painter, and the Red Army Choir.

    These musical remembrances will air this morning, from 6 to 9, and next Thursday morning, from 6 to 11.

    At 9:00 this morning, I will be joined by special guest Gail Wein, president of Classical Music Communications, who will talk a little bit about what she does and play from some of the CDs she’s been enjoying recently. Some of those will include music by Aaron Copland, Ben Johnston, Steven Mackey, Astor Piazzolla, and Louis Vierne.

    It will be a full morning by anyone’s standards. We’ll have our fill, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wrpb.com. I’ve had it up to here, on Classic Ross Amico.

    More about Classical Music Communications here:

    http://www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/

  • Remembering Artists Lost in 2016 on WPRB

    Remembering Artists Lost in 2016 on WPRB

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    O cruel, cruel 2016. You’ve robbed us of so many wonderful artists.

    Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we remember just a few of them, including, among others, composers Pierre Boulez, Karel Husa, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Steven Stucky, conductors Nicholas Harnoncourt and Sir Neville Marriner, guitarist Alirio Diaz, pianist Zoltan Kocsis, countertenor Russell Oberlin, and cellist Heinrich Schiff.

    Of perhaps local interest will be Marcel Farago, longtime cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, who also happened to be a composer, clarinetist Arne Running, who performed with the Riverside Symphonia,based in Lambertville, who was also a composer, and harpsichordist Temple Painter.

    These remembrances will take place from 6 to 9:00 EST. At 9:00, I will be joined by special guest Gail Wein, president of Classical Music Communications, who will talk a little bit about what she does and play from some of the CDs she’s been enjoying recently.

    We’ll bid good riddance to 2016, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11:00 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Let’s pray that 2017 has less of a sting, on Classic Ross Amico.

    More about Classical Music Communications here:

    http://www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/

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