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Ashcan Classics Making Music with Found Objects

Wait! Hang on to that seashell collection! Don’t get rid of that eraser! Before you take out the recyclables, think twice. Grab a flower pot, a soup can, or a Coke bottle, and pull up a chair. This week on “The Lost Chord,” we’ll be playing a lot of garbage.

So, what else is new?

Well, I’m afraid this week I mean it quite literally. We’ll hear a three-movement “Garbage Concerto” by Canadian composer Jan Järvlepp, selections from “Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel” – acoustical experiments employing various permutations of conch, trombone, and didgeridoo, inside a two-million-gallon water tank, no less – rendered by Stuart Dempster and friends, and a short piece for prepared piano (foreign objects inserted between the strings) by John Cage.

That’s “Ashcan Classics,” making music with found objects, on “The Lost Chord,” now in syndication on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Clip and save the start times for all three of my recorded shows:

PICTURE PERFECT, the movie music show – Friday at 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT

SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, the light music program – Saturday at 11:00 AM EDT/8:00 AM PDT

THE LOST CHORD, unusual and neglected rep – Saturday at 7:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM PDT

Stream them, wherever you are, at the link!

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

Wish I could give credit to the artist, but I can find no attribution

May 31, 2025
Earth Day Garbage Concerto on The Classical Network

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.

April 22, 2019
Earth Day Music on WPRB

This Sunday morning on WPRB, I’ll be playing a lot of garbage. So what else is new? 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 tomorrow is Earth Day.

We’ll also hear two sizeable choral works in the form of the “Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth,” by Libby Larsen, and “Hymn to the Earth,” by Edward Joseph Collins, in 1929 acting well ahead of the modern environmentalism curve.

Take a walk in the forest with a symphonic poem by Mikalojus Čiurlionis. View the earth from the International Space Station with a cello concerto by Osvaldo Golijov. Toot on a conch shell with Peter Sculthorpe.

Why on Earth would you want to miss it?

Every dog may have its day, but there’s only one Earth. Celebrate Earth Day, this Sunday morning from 7 to 10 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. I’ll be nothing if not earthy, on Classic Ross Amico.

April 21, 2018

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