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  • Jayce Ogren Conducts Tchaikovsky in Princeton

    Jayce Ogren Conducts Tchaikovsky in Princeton

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    Conductor Jayce Ogren is a man of many disciplines. He served as assistant conductor of one of America’s “Big Five” orchestras (Cleveland). He was music director of the New York City Opera. He is now artistic director of Philadelphia’s ‘new music’ ensemble, Orchestra 2001.

    Ogren will be in Princeton this weekend to guest conduct the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in a program titled “Impassioned Russia.” The concert will include Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6, the “Pathètique.” Natasha Paremski will be the soloist in Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The concert will be held on Sunday at 4 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium.

    Next season, he plans to bring Orchestra 2001 together with PSK: The Princeton Sound Kitchen for a special series. PSK specializes in music by Princeton University graduate students and faculty composers.

    You can learn more about Ogren, and his personal connection to the Princeton community, in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/11/classical_music_pso_performing_2.html

    Of perhaps related interest: WWFM – The Classical Network will broadcast the PSO’s October 9th concert, which featured Leila Josefowicz as soloist in Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto and music director Rossen Milanov conducting works by Franz Schubert and Julian Grant, tonight at 8:00 EDT. Listen locally at 89.1 FM or online at wwfm.org.

  • Autumn Music with Clipper Erickson on WPRB

    Autumn Music with Clipper Erickson on WPRB

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    Autumn is in the air!

    Well, maybe not, but it will certainly be ON the air, this morning on WPRB, as we drag Jack Frost kicking and screaming back from his vacation in the Bahamas, with a playlist evocative of changing, falling, and/or decaying leaves. Sure, it’s supposed to hit 75 degrees, but why deprive ourselves of the bittersweet pleasures of crisp apples, November woods, and wild geese?

    Clipper Erickson, piano, will swing by the studio around 9:00 to talk about his upcoming concert, which will take place at Salem United Church of Christ in Doylestown, on Sunday at 3 p.m. The program will include Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Clipper, who is on the faculties of Westminster Conservatory of Music and Temple University, is hot off a recital at the Steinway Salon at New York’s Symphony Space. He is always up to something (he’ll be appearing on another concert at 1867 Sanctuary at Ewing in a little over a week), so I’m sure there will be lots to talk about and plenty of music to enjoy.

    Bundle up and grab a rake; we disdain all leaf-blowers, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We make like a tree and leave, on Classic Ross Amico.

    MAKE AMERICA RAKE AGAIN: America’s composer, Aaron Copland, in tune with nature’s rhythms

  • 70 Degree November Autumn Music on WPRB

    70 Degree November Autumn Music on WPRB

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    What’s the deal with 70 degree November? They want us to change our clocks; can’t we just reset the calendar? But I guess that’s been tried a couple of times. At least the trees seem to understand the time of year.

    Tomorrow morning on WPRB, we will be conjuring an idealized autumn, with music reflective of the season’s two faces – on the one hand, the riotous colors of changing leaves, with rowdy kids pumped up on mad cider and candy corn; on the other, steely skies and denuded trees.

    Jack Frost will be out with his paint kit, even as temperatures are slated to spike into the mid-70s. The geese will be hightailing it south for the winter, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. It’s always autumn in our hearts, on Classic Ross Amico.

  • WWFM Today Orli Shaham Newman & Oltman

    WWFM Today Orli Shaham Newman & Oltman

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    I hope you’ll tune in to WWFM this afternoon, as I’ll be joined by a couple of special guests.

    In the 4:00 hour, pianist Orli Shaham will chat with me by telephone about her Baby Got Bach program, which she’ll be bringing to Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium as part of the Princeton University Concerts Series, this Saturday at 1 p.m. Baby Got Bach is designed to introduce children 3 to 6 to the joys of interactive music-making. You can find out more at babygotbach.org.

    Then we’ll be sampling from Orli’s performances of music by Alberto Ginastera, from a new album celebrating the centenary of one of Argentina’s most famous composers.

    In the 6:00 hour, Michael Newman of The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo will swing by to talk about a special Veterans Day concert, presented by Raritan River Music, that will be held at historic Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, near Pittstown, NJ, on Sunday at 2 p.m. Guest artists will include singers-songwriters-storytellers Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt. For more information, look online at RaritanRiverMusic.org.

    For the rest of this afternoon, we’ll be observing the birthdays of an eclectic assortment of composers and conductors, including Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, John Foulds, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Douglas Lilburn, and Giuseppe Sinopoli.

    There’s a lot to celebrate, from 4 to 7:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

  • All Saints’ Day Mozart & Musical Saints

    All Saints’ Day Mozart & Musical Saints

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    It’s November 1. All Saints’ Day.

    While Mozart may have been no saint, he certainly did write some divine music. I hope you’ll join me for today’s Noontime Concert, as we enjoy his Serenade No. 10 in B-flat for 13 wind instruments, the so-called “Gran Partita.” The performance, by the period instrument ensemble Grand Harmonie, took place at Harvard Memorial Chapel in Cambridge, MA, on October 17, 2015. Grand Harmonie’s next concert, an all-Mozart program, will be held on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Ignatius of Antioch, 552 West End Ave., in New York City. For more information, look online at grandharmonie.org.

    Following the noon concert, we will continue with the afternoon’s programming, which will be devoted to some musical saints. Featured will be Franz Liszt’s “St. Francis of Assisi’s Sermon to the Birds,” Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue, Sir Arnold Bax’s “St. Patrick’s Breastplate,” Norman Dello Joio’s “The Triumph of Saint Joan,” and Ottorino’s “Church Windows” (which includes panels devoted to St. Michael the Archangel, St. Clare, and St. Gregory the Great), as well as music by St. Hildegard von Bingen.

    I hope you’ll join me between 12 and 4 p.m. EDT for some heavenly music, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

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