Heigh ho! I’m pleased to announce that “Picture Perfect” will return to WWFM The Classical Network with music from movies appropriate for the Labor Day weekend. We’ll hear hard-working selections from “The Molly Maguires” (by Henry Mancini), “Modern Times” (by Charlie Chaplin and David Raksin), “Metropolis” (by Gottfried Huppertz) and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (Frank Churchill and Larry Morey). Tune in, as home from work you go, this Friday evening at 6 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network or at wwfm.org.
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Labor Day Movie Music on WWFM
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NJ Classical Music Concerts 2016-2017 Season
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With Labor Day weekend upon us, the whirring flywheels and pistons of the area’s cultural institutions are nearly up to speed.
In today’s Trenton Times, I take a look at some of the orchestral concerts poised to open the 2016-2017 season. Included are representative programs of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, the Westminster Community Orchestra, and Sinfonietta Nova.
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/08/classical_music_2016-17_concer.html
There wasn’t room to mention additional orchestral concerts in New Brunswick, just a half an hour’s drive to the north, courtesy of the State Theatre New Jersey – which will host the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (9/24, 10/9, 10/29/11/13, 11/27, 1/8, 1/15, 1/28, 2/12, 4/8, 4/23, 5/14), the Warsaw Philharmonic (10/23, including Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Symphony No. 4!), the Bamberg Symphony (2/12), and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (2/19) – and the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, which performs excellent and diverse programs under the direction of Kynan Johns.
The RSO’s opening concert will feature Mason Bates’ “Mothership” alongside Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” with pianist Michael Bulyachev-Okser, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 (Nicholas Auditorium, Mason Gross School of the Arts, on 9/24). You can find the complete season schedule by clicking on the PDF file at the bottom of this page:
http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/music/rutgers-symphony-orchestra
I was also remiss in not mentioning the Princeton University Orchestra (as I had intended to do), which begins its season on 10/22 & 10/23 with Samuel Barber’s “School for Scandal Overture,” scenes from Berlioz’s “Romeo and Juliet,” and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The complete schedule, including a springtime Mahler 5, can be found here:
All in all, a well-orchestrated season.
PHOTO: Violinist Daniel Rowland will be soloist and conductor as the Princeton Symphony Orchestra opens its season with works by Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla, at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on 9/15 at 8 p.m.
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Labor Day Music Salute Workers on WPRB
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Construction workers seek distraction from their labors with a side trip to Coney Island – right now, we’re listening to the ballet “Skyscrapers” by John Alden Carpenter. In just a few minutes, we’ll have a piano suite celebrating blue collar Brooklyn on a Sunday afternoon, “Sunday in Brooklyn,” by Elie Siegmeister. There will be more music evocative of factory workers, longshoremen, and various other trades, as we look ahead to Labor Day, with a guest appearance by Princeton’s own Paul Robeson, who will sing “Joe Hill.”
It’s music for the working stiff this morning until 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.
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Labor Day Music for the Working Class
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Who wants to work today? You, you, and you!
Climb aboard this morning and earn your keep, as we listen to music about labor and for the worker in anticipation of Labor Day. This will be an international affair, with Prokofiev’s “Le pas d’acier” (“The Steel Step”), a love story set in a factory, Manuel Rosenthal’s “Les petits métiers” (“The Small Trades”), and Nikolai Medtner’s “Three Hymns in Praise of Toil.”
There will also be two Danish symphonies: Rued Laangaard’s Symphony No. 14, “The Morning,” which culminates in the start of the work day, and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3, “Sinfonia espansiva,” concluding with “a hymn to work and the healthy activity of living.”
Naturally, it being an American holiday, we’ll have plenty of music by our native composers, as well, including the construction worker ballet “Skyscrapers” by John Alden Carpenter, Frederick Shepherd Converse’s tone poem about automobile manufacturing, “Flivver Ten Million,” and a suite from that quintessential film about violent longshoremen, “On the Waterfront,” by Leonard Bernstein.
We’ll be busting our hump for the man, from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I coulda been somebody; I coulda been a contender, on Classic Ross Amico.
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Carl Nielsen A Labor Day Composer
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Carl Nielsen understood the value of hard work. He grew up, one of twelve children, in a musical family of very limited means. By the time he was accepted into the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, he had already been performing and composing for many years. Like “The Ugly Duckling” of his compatriot Hans Christian Andersen, he emerged from humble origins to become a cherished thing of beauty, embraced as his country’s national composer.
Nielsen described the finale of his Symphony No. 3 as “a hymn to work and the healthy activity of living.” Enjoy it tomorrow morning, as we anticipate the Labor Day weekend with musical salutes to labor and the worker.
Be there with your lunch pail and dungarees, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM. We’re always working hard for your enjoyment, on Classic Ross Amico.
PHOTO: Nielsen breaking a sweat in his workroom, where he completed his Symphony No. 3 in 1911
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