Tag: Bob Pollack

With everyone salivating for turkey on Thursday, I’ll be heading for the hills! My colleague Bob Pollack has kindly agreed to fill in for me tomorrow morning on WPRB. Bob, host of “Morning Classical,” which is ordinarily heard on Tuesday mornings from 8:30 to 11, will offer a cornucopia of American music, including ALL FOUR violin sonatas by Charles Ives.

He’ll also observe the birthdays of Virgil Thomson and Edgar Meyer. And, as if all that weren’t enough, he’ll ladle on an extra helping of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. That’s the one Beethoven wrote following his recovery from a serious illness, leading him to introduce the third movement with an epigraph: “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart” (Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode). And you thought that drumstick was a mouthful!

Since it is a holiday, the show will start one hour later than usual – 7 a.m. EST. I hope you’ll allow Bob into your kitchen to keep you company as you roll your pie crusts and mash your potatoes, this Thanksgiving morning until 11, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.