Our chests swell with local pride this afternoon, as we hear music by Princeton composers Steven Mackey, Paul Lansky, and Milton Babbitt (on his birthday). Then things turn all cinematic, as we sample from some classic film scores by two titans of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, also born on May 10. Maxim Shostakovich, whose birthday it is, will conduct music by his father, and we’ll enjoy music by Baroque violinist Jean-Marie Leclair, born on this date in 1697.
That’s a lot of birthday cards to fill out, but we’ll manage, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.