Tag: Musicians (deceased)

  • Remembering Musicians We Lost in 2017

    Remembering Musicians We Lost in 2017

    Great singers (Nicolai Gedda, Roberta Peters, Kurt Moll, Dmitri Hvorostovsky); notable conductors (Georges Prêtre, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Louis Frémaux, Jiří Bělohlávek); talented composers (Veljo Tormis, Francis Thorne, Gordon Langford, Godfrey Schroth); and outstanding instrumentalists (Gervase de Peyer, Paul Zukofsky, Zuzana Růžičková), including not one, but two concertmasters of the Berlin Philharmonic (Thomas Brandis, Rainer Kussmaul) – these are only some of those we lost in 2017.

    This Thursday morning (and probably next) on WPRB, we’ll honor a good many artists who are no longer with us, but who, fortunately for us, left behind a wealth of recordings.

    The focus will be on musicians who traded their instruments for the harp, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for Classic Ross Amico.

  • Remembering Musicians Lost in 2016 on WPRB

    Remembering Musicians Lost in 2016 on WPRB

    Far too many great musicians traded in their instruments for the harp last year. This morning on WPRB, we’ll remember some of those we lost in 2016.

    In the second of two programs, we’ll celebrate the artistry of composers Leslie Bassett, Pierre Boulez, Marcel Farago, Ursula Mamlok, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Steven Stucky, conductors Gilbert Kaplan, Louis Lane and Otto-Werner Mueller, cellists Jules Eskin and Heinrich Schiff, oboist Neil Black, countertenor Russell Oberlin, harmonica player Toots Thielemans, choral director Gregg Smith, and the 64 members of the Red Army Choir.

    We remember those who have moved on to that great orchestra in the sky, this morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Even in the hereafter, we’re stuck in the third tier, on Classic Ross Amico.

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