Classic Ross Amico

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Support Classic Ross Amico on WPRB #wprb75

Do you like what I’ve been doing at WPRB? Have you enjoyed the music? The guests? The five-hour exercises in thematic excess? Then, please, call in today and help cement my standing there with a strong show of listener support, at 609-258-1033.

Classical Discoveries’ Marvin Rosen will join me from 6 to 11 ET, to beat the drum and cry for your pennies. Hopefully you’ll have some dough left over after your outstanding show of support for Marvin’s show yesterday.

Like Marvin (though on a more modest scale), I’ve got some special “thank you” gifts to sweeten the pot (click on the image below). PLEASE NOTE: Because of the limited quantities of the titles, only those who pledge by telephone will be able to collect these special gifts.

Listen in for music by Aaron Copland, Lou Harrison, Zoltán Kodály, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Steven Mackey, Miklós Rózsa, Florent Schmitt, Marcel Tyberg, and more Reinhold Gliere than you could comb out of your Stalinesque mustache. And to our telephone volunteers: good luck distinguishing E.J. Moeran (the English pastoralist) from Robert Moran (composer of “Game of the Antichrist”)!

This is my first WPRB 103.3 FM pledge drive, and it would be great if we could drum up a few thousand dollars to help validate my existence. Pledge early and often for Classic Ross Amico, at 609-258-103.3 or wprb.com – and thank you!

In addition to the authorized WPRB swag –the 75th anniversary commemorative pin and sticker set ($15), the t-shirt ($45), the lunch box and history booklet ($103.30), the retro bag ($250), a grab at immortality (and our eternal gratitude) through having your named inscribed on a station wall plaque ($500), and the anniversary banquet reservation ($1000) – consider picking up one of the following tasties for the low, low price of $45 dollars:

BUILT FOR BUFFALO – World premiere concertos by Aguila, Hagen and Ewazen (SIGNED BY JOANN FALLETTA), BEAU FLUEVE RECORDS 610708-094951

COPLAND, AARON – CELLULOID COPLAND, TELARC 80583

DEBUSSY, CLAUDE – THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (with Edgar Allan Poe-inspired music by Andre Caplet & Florent Schmitt), EMI 47921

FLEISHER, LEON – ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, BRIDGE 9429

GLIERE, REINHOLD – MACAL CONDUCTS GLIERE (Symphony No. 2 & “The Red Poppy,” w/the New Jersey Symphony), DELOS 3178

GLIERE, REINHOLD – Symphony No. 3 “Ilya Muromets” (SIGNED BY JOANN FALLETTA), NAXOS 8.573161

HARRISON, LOU – A PORTRAIT, ARGO 455 590-2

KODALY, ZOLTAN – SUMMER EVENING: WORKS BY ZOLTAN KODALY AND JOSEF SUK, DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 447 109-2

KORNGOLD, ERICH WOLFGANG – THE SEA HAWK: PREVIN CONDUCTS KORNGOLD, DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 471 347-2

MACKEY, STEVEN – AMERICAN GRACE, CANARY CLASSICS 11

MORAN, ROBERT – GAME OF THE ANTICHRIST (SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER), INNOVA 251

MOERAN, E.J. – Cello Concerto (SIGNED BY JOANN FALLETTA), NAXOS 8.573034

ROZSA, MIKLOS – CONCERTOS FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO, TELARC 80518

TYBERG, MARCEL – Symphony No. 2 (SIGNED BY JOANN FALLETTA), NAXOS 8.572822

#wprb75

October 15, 2015
Support Ross Amico’s WPRB Show Now! #wprb75

A call out to the Classic Ross Amico Cavalry!

For all of you who follow me here on Facebook and delight in my radio programs, today is the one and only opportunity for you to support my Thursday morning show at WPRB 103.3 FM or wprb.com. I’m here until 11:00 this morning. I hope you’ll call before then to make a pledge. Pick up a nice “thank you” gift, as a token of my appreciation, for only $45. See my earlier morning Facebook post for details. Call 609-258-1033. Hope to hear from you! Thanks!

#wprb75

October 15, 2015
Support WPRB Classical Discoveries Pledge Drive #WPRB75

Would you trust these men with your music? Classic Ross Amico, on the phones and on the air, with Classical Discoveries’ Marvin Rosen, until 11 a.m. ET. Make your pledges in support of the new and unusual in “classical music” at 609-258-1033 or at wprb.com.

This is the one chance this year for you to support Classical Discoveries and WPRB. The station holds but a single, week-long pledge drive per year. That’s it. I’m sure if you wanted to send the station a check at some point, they won’t turn it away, but if you want to be counted toward the ambitious goal of $75,000 to celebrate WPRB’s 75th year, you need to act this week.

Take a look at these lipsmacking “thank you” gifts Marvin has assembled for you. These will be on offer only until 11, at WPRB 103.3 FM. All pledges are greatly appreciated, but because of the limited quantities of the titles, only those who pledge by telephone will be able to collect these special gifts.

http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/index_10_14_2015_temporary_file.html#CDs

Then I hope you’ll tune in tomorrow, when we’ll do it again, in support of Classic Ross Amico, with a fresh batch of “thank you” gifts supplied by me. Better start fishing the change out of your sofas. We sincerely appreciate your support at Classical Discoveries, Classic Ross Amico, and WPRB.

Make your pledges at 609-258-1033, or at wprb.com – and thank you!

#WPRB75

October 14, 2015
Live on Air Today! Pledge Drive & Lost Chord Favorites

Today’s the day!

As a preamble to tonight’s rebroadcast of “The Lost Chord” (“The Most Dangerous Game,” at 6 p.m. ET), I will be on the air live for two hours, beginning at 4, to present some of my favorites from “Lost Chords” past.

Don’t forget, we are in the middle of a pledge drive, so I’ll be joined, I believe, by Alice Weiss and Michael Kownacky. Things have really been cooking the past couple of days, so there is every possibility we’ll be skiing an avalanche as we near an early end to the campaign. The focus, after all, is on raising money.

For the two hour “pre-Game,” I’ll be playing a mix of contemporary composers, vintage recordings, and light music classics of yore. If we’re lucky, apropos to World Series time, we may even get to hear George Kleinsinger’s “Brooklyn Baseball Cantata,” with Robert Merrill.

In addition, I will be offering as a special thank you gift signed copies of Robert Moran’s new album, “Game of the Antichrist,” released yesterday on the innova Recordings label – just in time for Hallowe’en. Stay tuned, then, for an interview with Moran and to listen to the title piece at 6:00.

If “the Antichrist” isn’t your thing (it’s an adaptation of a medieval mystery play, incorporating bar piano, alphorn and giant puppets), there’s always the station mug, the tote bag and the Cantus CD, “Harvest Home,” that I hope will entice you.

This will be my first live air shift since June. It would be nice if everyone supported the station under any circumstances, but if you do call or pledge online, feel free to put in a good word for me and my shows (though sometimes that information gets lost as the phone volunteers struggle to keep up).

One way or another, I hope you will help keep the station healthy by pledging your support at http://www.wwfm.org, or 1-888-232-1212.

Thank you!

PHOTOS: Join me for the Yankees and other Antichrists this afternoon on The Classical Network

October 29, 2014
Live Radio Shift Pledges Needed Now

LIVE AIR SHIFT ALERT! I’ve been given my first live shift since being removed from the weekend mornings at the end of March. I’ll be on tomorrow from 1 to 4 p.m., asking for your pledges of support. It may be my last live shift for quite some time. My understanding is that I will still be selecting all my own music.

Because of the pledge drive, “Picture Perfect” will be heard this week on Saturday, at 4 p.m ET. In keeping with the drive’s Americana theme, the focus will be on the film scores of Elmer Bernstein (including “The Magnificent Seven” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”). “The Lost Chord” will air, as usual, Sunday night at 10, and will feature an hour of vintage Gershwin recordings.

Remember, the station really needs the dough. Even if you’re not happy with some of the changes, it’s still 24 hours of classical music. Also, WWFM remains the distributor of specialty shows like “Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord.”

Feel free to express your likes and dislikes, but remember a generous pledge will get your opinions taken more seriously. Do not hold out hopes that I will be restored to weekend mornings. Unless a big time patron steps forward by the end of the month to subsidize my chair, it ain’t going to happen.

Your pledges, especially between 1 and 4 tomorrow, but anytime, with perhaps a kind word for your humble host, are greatly appreciated.

Listen and donate here: http://www.wwfm.org.

Thank you for supporting The Classical Network.

June 26, 2014

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