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March Music Madness on WPRB This Morning

An all-march morning? That’s the fact, Jack!

Marches for band. Symphonic marches. Light music marches. Marches for piano. Marches for string quartet. Funeral marches. Coronation marches. Circus marches.

I hope you’ll join me this morning on WPRB, as we are seized by March Madness. That’s right, five blessed hours of marches. Fear not, it won’t be all march-or-die, an incessant barrage of three-minute quick marches in 4/4 time. Some of the marches will be embedded in larger works. Some of the works will merely suggest marches.

It’s a beautiful morning for a brisk March. I’ll be banging a ladle against the trash can lid at 6:00. Join me for a good stretch of the legs, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’ll be sounding off – left, left, left, right, left – on Classic Ross Amico.

March 23, 2017
March Madness on WPRB Radio

Can’t… stop… the MADNESS!

Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we’re overtaken by March Madness. We’ll have a full morning of marches. That’s right. It’s so mad a concept, it hardly seems feasible. Yet we will work miracles in an attempt to avoid a rigid playlist of 3-minute pieces in 4/4 time.

I’ve already got sets of marches piling up for two pianos by Beethoven and Schubert, a symphony for band (and marching machine) by Morton Gould, and works in larger forms that incorporate notable march movements by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest composers.

We rise at oh-dark-thirty to begin marching at 6. I hope you’ll join me from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. These boots are made for marching, on Classic Ross Amico.

March 22, 2017

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