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WPRB Celebrates Groundhog Day & Local Music

If you haven’t tuned in to WPRB yet this morning (and you really should), we are saluting the Groundhog this morning with music evocative of the animal kingdom. Sure, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter, but he’s only right 39 percent of the time. Even so, he deserves our love, because he’s a groundhog.

Yet to come: Lucas Richman: Conductor/Composer’s “Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant,” after witty animal poems by Jack Prelutsky, which will introduce us to Ballpoint Penguins, Shoehornets, Zipperpotamuses, and the Clocktopus, among others. Richman will conduct the Princeton Symphony Orchestra Saturday Evening POPS! concert at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium this weekend. Broadway phenom Sierra Boggess will celebrate the musical, in a program that will trace its transition from stage to screen and back again.

At 10:00 this morning, we’ll shift gears, as I will be joined by Saad Haddad, Composer. Haddad’s fascinating “Manarah” was heard on a PSO concert this past weekend. He’ll be dropping by to share more of his music and to talk about his use of electronic processing to suggest the sounds of his Middle Eastern heritage.

There’s plenty yet to come today. Join me in hibernation, between now and 11:00 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

PHOTO: Saad Haddad (left) with PSO Music Director Rossen Milanov

February 2, 2017
WWFM: St Patrick’s & Silver Screen Soundtracks

Trying to figure out your plans for Friday night? Why not grab some Sno-Caps and a large popcorn and join me for a double feature?

First, on “Picture Perfect,” we look ahead to St. Patrick’s Day, with music from “The Luck of the Irish” (by Cyril J. Mockridge), “Angela’s Ashes” (by John Williams), “Circle of Friends” (by Michael Kamen), and “The Quiet Man” (by Victor Young).

Then we’ll have an hour to hit the concession stand before the start of a special concert with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Vocalist Jessica Hendy will join guest conductor Lucas Richman for “A Silver Screen Salute,” featuring selections from “Ben-Hur,” “Psycho,” “Star Wars,” and more.

Richman has worked in Hollywood for 25 years, recording the actual scores onto the soundtracks of films like “The Village,” “As Good as It Gets,” and “Se7en.”

As always, “Picture Perfect” can be heard at 6:00 ET, with a repeat tomorrow morning at 6. If you miss it, you can enjoy it later as a webcast at wwfm.org.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra concert will be broadcast tonight at 8. There will be no webcast of the PSO, so you had better be there or be square.

WWFM – The Classical Network can be heard locally, in the Trenton-Princeton area, at 89.1 FM. Internet streaming is available through the website. For a complete list of frequencies, look here:

http://wwfm.org/technical.shtml

March 11, 2016
Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s Silver Screen Pops

The shrieking violins of “Psycho.” The menacing double-basses of “Jaws.” Both exemplify the lingering power of exceptionally well-suited music and visuals.

Both will be represented on a concert of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, which will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Audition tomorrow night at 8:00. The orchestra’s annual “Saturday Evening POPS!” is a sequel of sorts to last year’s “Silver Screen Salute.”

The program will include music from classic films like “Ben-Hur” and “Star Wars,” with songs from more recent favorites like “Titanic” and “Frozen.”

Lucas Richman will conduct. Richman has worked in films for nearly a quarter century. He’ll be joined by Broadway vocalist Jessica Hendy for some classic love songs by George Gershwin and Marvin Hamlisch.

You can read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/classical_music_pso_cnso_perfo.html

PHOTO: The hand of Hendy

February 5, 2016

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