Sanka… or Sedaka?
At any rate, I’m not sure it’s coffee in that mug.
Sure, waking up is hard to do. But we’ll get your feet tapping and your head moshing with classical music by, or influenced by, popular music superstars. Among our featured works will be Neil Sedaka’s piano concerto, “Manhattan Intermezzo.”
We’ll also hear “From Yesterday to Penny Lane,” after the Beatles, by Leo Brouwer, “Dead Elvis” by Michael Daugherty, and “Bonham,” named for the legendary Led Zeppelin drummer, by Christopher Rouse. Worlds collide in the politically subversive Symphony No. 4 – the “Rock” Symphony – by classically-trained Latvian composer Imants Kalniņš. Depending on our timings, we may even hear an electric guitar concerto by Princeton University’s Steven Mackey.
I’ll be attempting my first stage dive, between 7 and 10 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Even the guitars are electric, on Classic Ross Amico.