Tag: Daylight Saving Time

  • Daylight Saving Time Musical Commiseration

    Daylight Saving Time Musical Commiseration

    The possibility of stroke is elevated, even as productivity plummets. Sunday drives will become snarled in traffic accidents. Everyone will be moody and depressed.

    Sleepers, awake! Welcome to Daylight Saving Time!

    Brew yourself an extra strong pot of coffee, and join me on WPRB for a morning of musical commiseration.

    Among our featured highlights, Trenton’s own George Antheil will collaborate with George Balanchine on “Dreams.” A female somnambulist will dance across the rooftops with the Moon-Dandy in Erwin Schulhoff’s ballet “Moonstruck.” And Jean Francaix will puzzle over how to change his flower clock in “L’horloge de flore.”

    It’s all about lost sleep and syncopated clocks, this Sunday morning from 7 to 10 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. I’m told we’ll get our hour back on November 4. Until then, enjoy the Circadian Apocalypse. If you’re on time, you’re already late, on Classic Ross Amico.

  • Daylight Saving Time Survival Guide

    Daylight Saving Time Survival Guide

    Get ready for the worst day of the year (after New Year’s and Valentine’s Day).

    Tomorrow morning, much of the United States will “spring forward” as we enact once again the hideous custom of Daylight Saving Time.

    All across the country bleary-eyed folk will adjust their clocks, only to wind up destroying things or injuring themselves because of disrupted sleep cycles. The risk of stroke always spikes the day after the time shift, and productivity plummets on Monday due to worker fatigue. But it’s all worth it, I suppose, just so that we can have a little extra light at the end of the day should we decide to take a walk in the evening.

    With this in mind, it may seem rather selfish to recommend that you join the most sleep-deprived of us all (me) this Sunday morning on WPRB, as I present three hours of music about clocks, time, sleep, dreams, sleeplessness, somnambulism, and morning come-too-soon.

    But present it I shall, for your consideration, this Sunday from 7 to 10 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. The evenings will be brighter, even as the circles around my eyes grow darker, on Classic Ross Amico.

  • Saturn Gives Back! Fall Back Time Change 2024

    Saturn Gives Back! Fall Back Time Change 2024

    Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age, reminds you to turn your clocks tonight. Actually, Saturn will give you back an hour. Thank you, Saturn.

    Detail: “Saturn Devouring His Son,” Francisco Goya (c. 1819-1823)

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