This morning on WPRB, we get “reel.” It’s concert music by composers better known for their work in film, with examples of their music for the movies.
The playlist is still taking shape – a show is always a thing in progress – but the Box of Wonders contains enchantments by the likes of Elmer Bernstein, Bruce Broughton, Ernest Gold, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jerome Moross, Ennio Morricone, Rachel Portman, Nino Rota, Miklós Rózsa, Lalo Schifrin, Franz Waxman and John Williams.
Daniel Spalding will drop by at around 10:00. Spalding will conduct the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra in a blockbuster program of “Cinematic Classics” this weekend, including works by Rózsa, Herrmann and William Walton, with Odin Rathnam the soloist in Korngold’s Violin Concerto. The concert will take place at the Trenton War Memorial on Saturday evening at 7:30.
Past WPRB guests, JoAnn Falletta and Mariusz Smolij, music director of the Riverside Symphonia in Lambertville, will be represented this morning in fine recordings of music by Moross and Rózsa, respectively.
The concert hall becomes a screening room, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’re ready for our close-up, on Classic Ross Amico.
