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Reformation Music & Halloween Fun on WWFM

Okay, so maybe Halloween is not for everyone.

Today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, which was sparked on October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his “Ninety-five Theses” to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg. To mark the occasion, we’ll share a program presented in Princeton last month by the Kinnara Ensemble, featuring works by Luther, César Franck, Thomas Tallis, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Distler.

Following that, Michael Kownacky will join me at 1:00. Be forewarned, the two us are feeling rather… diabolical. We’ll be force-feeding you musical candy corn until David Osenberg returns to the air waves at 4 p.m, on this, the final day of our Fall Membership Campaign. We need to wrap up this drive, in the black, by 7:00. Until then, we are very definitely “in the red” – as in scarlet.

It’s music of the sacred and the profane, on this October 31, here on WWFM – The Classical Network. Please support us at wwfm.org or by calling 1-888-232-1212.

October 31, 2017
Classical Music Halloween & Reformation Drive

The airwaves will resound with shrieks of horror and mad laughter – and not just because it’s Halloween.

Today is the last day of The Classical Network’s Fall Membership Campaign. We’re all getting a little punchy, so if you haven’t supported us recently, please do so now, before it’s too late! It’s the end of our fiscal year, and we need your help to put us in the black.

The sooner we meet our goal, the sooner we can devote the day to uninterrupted music, including some of the larger symphonic poems and suites on spooky themes. In the meantime, we will do our best to keep you entertained with bite-sized works – tricks or treats dealing with ghosts, ghouls and witches. So the gibbering madness won’t be restricted to our on-air hosts.

On today’s Noontime Concert, we’ll commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It was on this date in 1517 that Martin Luther allegedly nailed his “Ninety-five Theses” to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg. To mark the occasion, we’ll share a program presented in Princeton last month by the Kinnara Ensemble, featuring works by Luther, César Franck, Thomas Tallis, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Distler. More information about the choir, including its new CD, “Provenance,” may be found at its website, kinnaraensemble.org.

Now is your time to howl! Join us in membership. Help us to wrap up our fall campaign and make this drive a success by calling 1-888-232-1212, or by leaving a few bones at wwfm.org. You are our life’s blood. Thank you for doing your part to support spellbinding music on WWFM – The Classical Network.

AaaaaOOOOOooOooOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

October 31, 2017
Poetry & Music on WPRB

“Is it the words that move my heart or the music that speaks more strongly? It’s fruitless to try to separate them. Words and music are fused into one… One art redeemed by the other!”

– The Countess, Richard Strauss’ “Capriccio”

I hope you’ll join me this morning on WPRB, when and where there will be plenty of words and music to ponder, as we listen to as much music inspired by poetry and poets as we possibly can in five hours.

It will be a veritable Norton Anthology of works influenced by Matthew Arnold, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E.E. Cummings, A.E. Houseman, Victor Hugo, Ben Johnson, Edward Lear, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Wallace Stevens and William Butler Yeats.

You’ll hear choral music, song, overtures and symphonic poems, with Sir John Gielgud reading the texts by Aloysius Bertrand that inspired Ravel’s “Gaspard de la Nuit.”

J.D. Burnett, founder and artistic director of the Kinnara Ensemble, will drop by at around 10:00. He’ll tell us a little bit about the choir’s concert at The Hun School of Princeton this Saturday at 8 p.m., when the group will present Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Serenade to Music,” along with works by Johannes Brahms and others.

Sharpen your quills – it’s all about poetry and music this morning, from 6 to 11 ET, at WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com. We’re starving for our art on Classic Ross Amico.

October 1, 2015
Poetry and Music on WPRB This Week

If music and sweet poetry agree,
As they must needs, the sister and the brother,
Then must the love be great ’twixt thee and me,
Because thou lov’st the one and I the other.
Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch
Upon the lute doth ravish human sense;
Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such,
As passing all conceit, needs no defence.
Thou lov’st to hear the sweet melodious sound
That Phœbus’ lute, the queen of music, makes;
And I in deep delight am chiefly drowned
Whenas himself to singing he betakes:
One god is god of both, as poets feign,
One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.

– Richard Barnfield, 1574-1621 (attributed to Shakespeare)

This Thursday morning on WPRB, we invoke the Muses (or a number of them anyway) for five hours of poetry and music.

We’ll hear our share of singing, of course – choral settings and lieder – but also a satisfying number of orchestral and instrumental works, with music inspired by the poetry or persons of Matthew Arnold, Aloysius Bertrand, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E.E. Cummings, A.E. Houseman, Victor Hugo, Ben Johnson, Edward Lear, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas and William Butler Yeats, or as many of those as I can get to.

We’ll also enjoy a visit from J.D. Burnett, founder and artistic director of the Kinnara Ensemble, which will perform at The Hun School of Princeton this Saturday at 8 p.m., presenting Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Serenade to Music,” along with works by Johannes Brahms and others. He’ll drop by at around 10:00 to tell us a little bit more about their season.

I hope you’ll join me for a banquet of poetry and music, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 ET, at WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com. We’re not averse to verse on Classic Ross Amico.

September 30, 2015

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