Tag: Christopher Lyndon-Gee

It’s never too early to begin celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, so I hope you’ll join me early tomorrow morning on WPRB. Just as St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland, we’ll drive all the cobwebs out of our brains with cleansing reels, tin whistles, and sentimental airs.

We’ll have music from Ireland and on Irish themes, with works by native composers John Larchet, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, and Joan Trimble; composers of Irish descent Edward Joseph Collins, Henry Cowell, and Augusta Holmès; and Irishmen-for-a-day Ludwig van Beethoven, Frank Martin, and Romeo Cascarino, for starters.

We’ll cram in all the weeping and drinking and step dancing and fighting that we can before 10:00, at which time we’ll shift gears, and I will be joined by Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Lyndon-Gee will be guest conducting the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium this Sunday afternoon at 4, in a program featuring music by Sir Edward Elgar and Carl Nielsen.

Lyndon-Gee, a prolific recording artist who has garnered five Grammy nominations, will talk a bit about the weekend’s program, and then surprise us with a selection of his recorded performances. His catalog skews heavily toward unusual and neglected repertoire, which very much makes him a man after my own heart.

It will be all the green beer you can drink, tomorrow morning from 6 to 10 EDT. Then we’ll hide all the bottles for a visit from Christopher Lyndon-Gee from 10 to 11, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I hope you’ll assist me in setting a Guinness world-record (if you know what I mean), on Classic Ross Amico.