Tag: Light in August

“. . . [I]n August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and – from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . . [T]he title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.”

We take a page from William Faulkner, this Thursday morning on WPRB, as we salute the light in August. The airwaves will be awash with music about light, color, rainbows and kaleidoscopes, with the possible inclusion of works by Sir Edward Elgar, Andrei Eshpai, Edward German, Jennifer Higdon, Uuno Klami, Morten Lauridsen, Roger Quilter, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Miklós Rózsa, Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Theofanidis, Michael Torke, and more.

In addition, I will be joined around 10:00 by Sandra Milstein-Pucciatti, cofounder and managing director of Boheme Opera NJ, who will tell us what to expect from a free concert of arias and duets scheduled to take place tomorrow evening at 7, in Joseph Lawrence Park in Bordentown. The program will include selections from opera and musical theater. For more about Boheme Opera, visit bohemeopera.com.

I hope you’ll join me, your resident Faulknerian idiot man-child, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 ET, as we bask in the light in August, at WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com. Keep it coruscating with Classic Ross Amico.