This afternoon on The Classical Network, I’ll be playing a lot of garbage. No, really. One of my featured works will be the “Garbage Concerto,” by Canadian composer Jan Järvlepp. The piece incorporates percussion instruments fashioned out of recyclable material. I thought it only appropriate, since today is Earth Day.
I hope you’ll join me, as I enter nature’s realm with Antonin Dvořák. Take a walk in the woods with Robert Schumann and Mikalojus Čiurlionis. View the earth from the International Space Station with a cello concerto by Osvaldo Golijov.
We’ll hear a wistful piano work that grew out of a review written in protest of uranium mining, of all things, by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and a symphony commissioned in part by a wildlife conservancy, from Alan Hovhaness.
It’s in my nature to share great music. Celebrate Earth Day, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.