I’ll be sitting in for Mark Pinto for “New Releases” this afternoon on WRTI.
Following close on the heels of the San Francisco Opera broadcast of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” (which will conclude at around 3:40 EDT), I’ll be presenting music from the album “Wind Concerti,” recently issued on the BCM+D label – the resident label of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance – featuring contemporary American wind and brass concertos performed by the Temple University Wind Symphony with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra and faculty from the Boyer College.
The 2-CD set, which includes music by Anthony Plog, Joel Puckett, Jennifer Higdon, David Maslanka, and Adam Silverman, is a delight, and I can’t wait to share some of it with you. We’ll hear Jay Krush’s Concerto for Bass Trombone, a wholly engaging vehicle for an instrument rarely given such an opportunity to shine. The soloist will be Blair Bollinger of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Krush, whose own instrument is the tuba, is a founding member of the Chestnut Brass Company, with which he has performed for 36 years. He’s an artist in residence at the Boyer College. He also conducts the Temple University Contemporary Music Ensemble. Krush has composed over 70 works of his own, including two symphonies.
I hope you’ll join me for that and more, until 5 p.m., at which time I will turn things over to Kile Smith and Jack Moore for this month’s edition of “Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection” and music of Enrique Granados. Find out more about it here:
http://wrti.org/post/enrique-granados-had-just-conquered-america
Tune in to WRTI, in Philadelphia at 90.1 FM, or online at wrti.org.
