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Ross Amico Takes Over The Classical Network Today!

Surprise! Get ready for SEVEN HOURS of Classic Ross Amico today, as I fill in for my colleague, Carl Hemmingsen, early this afternoon on The Classical Network; then stick around for my usual late afternoon air shift.

I’ll be celebrating a number of notable birthdays along the way, with symphonies by Jan Kalivoda (a.k.a. Johann Kalliwoda) and Charles-Marie Widor, a complete ballet of Léo Delibes, and a nod to guitarist Andrés Segovia.

At 6:00, I’ll be your host for “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies. This week, we’ll salute actor Kirk Douglas, who died on February 5 at the age of 103. We’ll hear selections from “Spartacus” (Alex North), “The Bad and the Beautiful” (David Raksin), “Lust for Life” (Miklós Rózsa), and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (Paul J. Smith).

First, on today’s Noontime Concert, once again, we’ll travel to the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, for another Concerts on the Slope. Concerts on the Slope was founded in 2012 to present top-notch chamber music performances featuring rising young artists from New York City and around the world. Today’s broadcast emanates from St. John’s Episcopal Church. On the program will be works by Andy Akiho, Nick DiBernardino, Thomas Kotcheff, David Crowell, Dave Molk, and Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe, performed by Sandbox Percussion.

There’s plenty of room in the box for everyone. Just don’t get sand in my sandwich, as I’ll need all the fuel I can get, from 12 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

February 21, 2020
Giving Tuesday on The Classical Network

To mark Giving Tuesday, The Classical Network will salute a number of non-profit organizations that continue to make a difference in our community. WWFM hosts will conduct brief interviews throughout the day, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with representatives of the following: SAVE, A Friend to Homeless Animals (10:30 a.m.), Joan Dancy & PALS – People with ALS Foundation (11:30 a.m.), TASK – Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (2:15 p.m.), Princeton Senior Resource Center – PSRC (3:15 p.m.), HomeFront – Helping Families Break the Cycle of Poverty (4 p.m.), Trenton Music Makers (5 p.m.), and Good Grief, Inc. – Putting the GOOD in GRIEF (6 p.m.). Tune in to learn more and to see how you, too, can lend a hand.

Of course, we’ll also enjoy ample helpings of great music along the way, including a Noontime Concert from Concerts on the Slope. “Voices of Latin America” will feature “Á Tres Voces” by Cuban-born composer Tania León (who is Slopes’ composer-in-residence) and “Fuego de ángel” by Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra. Also on the program will be the Symphony No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven – a composer who had very strong notions about the brotherhood of man – in a rarely-heard version for piano trio. Concerts on the Slope is a chamber music series presented at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.

Following the broadcast concert and between interviews, I’ll be peppering my playlist with music of love, thanks, and concern for our fellow human beings, including Beethoven’s “Bundeslied,” Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s “Ode to Joy” (yes, you read that correctly), Aaron Copland’s “The Promise of Living,” and Alan Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 11 “All Men Are Brothers.”

Music is the gift that keeps on giving, from 12 to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

November 27, 2018
Park Slope Concerts on the Radio Today

Time again to hit the Slope.

I hope you’ll join me for Tuesday’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network. when I’ll be introducing music from Concerts on the Slope, from Saint John’s Episcopal Church, located in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. On the program will be music by Princeton University Ph.D. candidates Andy Akiho and Caroline Shaw (recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music), John Cage, and the series’ composer-in-residence Ke-Chia Chen.

Concerts on the Slope’s next program, “The Flowering Viola,” will be presented this Sunday at 3 p.m. The concert will include music by Charles Martin Loeffler, Robert Sirota, Bohuslav Martinu, Rebecca Clarke, and Max Bruch.

Concerts on the Slope was founded in 2012 to present top-notch chamber music concerts, featuring rising young artists from New York City and around the world. You can find out more about the series at concertsontheslope.org.

Tune in today at 12:00 p.m. EDT to WWFM – The Classical Network or wwfm.org.

May 23, 2017
Concerts on the Slope Chamber Music Broadcast

I think you’ll agree, there’s nothing slippery about this Slope.

Today’s edition of “The Classical Network in Concert” will feature performances guaranteed to stick to your ribs, as we travel to Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Park Slope, Brooklyn, for Concerts on the Slope. Concerts on the Slope was founded in 2012 to present top-notch chamber music concerts, featuring rising young artists from New York and around the world.

This afternoon’s broadcast will include a complete concert given on Oct. 23, 2016 – a program of clarinet trios by Jonathan Tunick, Ke-Chia Chen, and Beethoven – with clarinetist Eric Umble, cellist Benjamin Larsen, and pianist Jeong Hwa Park; and then, after a break, we’ll hear highlights from a concert given on Oct. 2, by Frank Morelli and his All-Star Bassoon Quartet. The program will include music by Gounod, Bach, Handel and Leonard Bernstein. You can find out more about the series at concertsontheslope.org.

Stick around after 2:00 EST for major works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Bohuslav Martinu. I’ll be serving up the Slope for lunch at noon, and then spinning the platters until 4, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

January 10, 2017

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