As the sun rises over the ‘roos, I hope you’ll join me for a morning of music from the Land Down Under. We’ll enjoy FIVE HOURS of music by Australian composers, including Colin Brumby, who died on January 3rd at the age of 84. Repertoire will range from a symphony by seminal antipodean composer Alfred Hill, influential in both Australia and New Zealand, to an experimental work by a creative artist of the current generation, Carl Vine. Also represented will be a Master of the Queen’s Music, a critic for the New York Herald Tribune, and a figure better known as a conductor, who had his career destroyed because of a lurid scandal involving both sex and witchcraft. If that’s not enough, I’ll also toss in a didgeridoo or two.
Join me as we travel Down Under, to remember the late Colin Brumby and explore the musical outback (from the perspective of the myopic West). It’s all music from Australia, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. I’ll be wrestling crocodiles and savage koalas, on Classic Ross Amico.