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Early Music Month on WPRB: Medieval to Modern

The pull of history will be strong tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we celebrate Early Music Month. We’ll examine the influences of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance on “contemporary” composers – that is to say, composers who lived within the past 100 years. In fact, several of them (William Kraft, Paul Lansky, and Kile Smith) are still very much with us.

At 9:00, I’ll be joined by John Burkhalter, a stalwart of the local Early Music scene and a member of the Guild for Early Music. He’ll fill us in on the Guild and its series of upcoming concerts featuring vocal and instrumental music from the 12th through the 18th centuries. The concerts will be presented by the Guild’s member groups throughout the month of March. You’ll find a complete schedule at guildforearlymusic.org.

Plainchant and polyphony, pavanes and galliards, madrigals and lute pieces, all will shimmer as if from a distant mirror, as we enjoy 20th and 21st century classics inspired by the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I’ll be feeling a tad Middle Aged myself, on Classic Ross Amico.

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Early Music America

March 2, 2017
Early Music Month on WPRB: A Funhouse Mirror

My, but it’s Early – Early Music, that is!

This morning on WPRB, don’t expect the usual duets for solo instrument and piano. In honor of Early Music Month, we’ll gaze into a distant mirror – albeit a funhouse mirror – glimpsing courtly dances, Gregorian chant, madrigals, and hymn tunes, transformed by “contemporary” composers – that is to say, composers who have worked over the course of the past century.

At 9:00, I’ll be joined by John Burkhalter, a stalwart of the local Early Music scene and a member of the Guild for Early Music. He’ll fill us in on the Guild and a series of upcoming concerts that will feature vocal and instrumental music from the 12th through the 18th centuries. The concerts will be presented by the Guild’s member groups throughout the month of March. You’ll find a complete schedule at guildforearlymusic.org.

Our playlist this morning will include music inspired by Elizabethan dances, a guitar concerto based on Renaissance madrigals, arrangements of virginal pieces and cantigas for different instrumental ensembles, and wind music based on early lute pieces, among others. Around 9:45 or 9:50, we’ll enjoy a recording of Philadelphia composer, writer, and radio personality Kile Smith’s “Vespers,” ably performed by The Crossing and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band.

It’s a taste of Merrie Olde Princeton, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. The bodkins are perpetually at odds, on Classic Ross Amico.

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Early Music America

March 2, 2017
Vaughan Williams Birthday Harvest on WPRB

Grab a pitchfork and prepare for an alternatingly brisk, meditative and lusty morning. Just in time for the harvest, it’s a full playlist of Ralph Vaughan Williams on his birthday. We’ll stroll the fertile fields of Gloucestershire, Norfolk and Sussex, travel back in time to Tudor England, and share the composer’s turmoil – and hope – through two world wars.

Around 9:30, recorder player John Burkhalter, a stalwart of the area’s Early Music scene, will drop by the studio to talk a little but about the 12th Annual Guild for Early Music Festival, which will take place this Sunday at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton. Then we’ll hear Vaughan Williams’ piece for recorder ensemble, “Suite for Pipes,” a seldom heard work, in a recording that is now as rare as hen’s teeth.

Because of Yom Kippur, Marvin Rosen’s Classical Discoveries will be heard on Thursday morning this week, from 5:30 to 11:00. We’ll be pitching hay and pitching woo; some of the music may even as black as pitch (the Symphony No. 4, with the composer conducting). I’ll be on the pitcher’s mound from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We put a little “English” on it, on Classic Ross Amico.

PHOTO: Vaughan Williams and Foxy engage in a shedding contest

October 12, 2016

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