Why should these morose looking clowns have all the fun?
Join me for five hours – yes, FIVE HOURS – of musical evocations of the circus, a theme which is not perhaps as one-note as it may read, with works like Lord Berners’ “Luna Park,” Douglas Moore’s “The Pageant of P.T. Barnum,” Walter Piston’s “The Incredible Flutist,” Nino Rota’s “La Strada Ballet,” Erik Satie’s “Parade,” and Rodion Shchedrin’s “Old Russian Circus Music.” Sure, there will be plenty of 4/4 swagger and graceful trapeze waltzes, and also film scores from some classic circus movies. But hopefully you won’t walk away with a sugar headache from too much cotton candy.
I can’t claim that it will be the Greatest Show on Earth, but I hope you will spend some time with me under the Big Top. I’ll be there from 6 to 11 ET, at WPRB 103.3 FM, or online at wprb.com. It’s all latex and spangles this week, on Classic Ross Amico.
BTW – I’ve got you coming and going today. Listen to me on your way to work at WPRB, from 6 to 11. Then hear me on your way home on WRTI 90.1 FM (or wrti.org), from 2 to 6. I’ll be launched from a cannon over the lunch hour.
