I’m sorry to report, if you live outside the range of our analogue signal, that the WPRB webstream at wprb.com is down this morning. I’m told that we’re working to get it up again as soon as possible. If you live as far south as Philadelphia, or even further (I’ve received the signal all the way down into Delaware), or west, into the Lehigh Valley, for instance, try to get us on your radio. We’ve actually got pretty good analogue coverage at WPRB 103.3 FM. In the meantime, we apologize for the inconvenience. Hopefully we’ll be back soon!
Tag: Princeton
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WPRB May the Fourth Music Special
May the Fourth be with you!
Join me this morning on WPRB, as we listen to music by John Williams performed by the FilmHarmonic Brass. It’s one of at least 11 recent releases we’ll enjoy, with composers spanning from Robert Schumann to Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw and performers ranging from the Philadelphia-based choral ensemble The Crossing to Yo-Yo Ma.
We’ll also have a couple of special guests in the studio. At 9:00, Clipper Erickson, piano, will drop by to share music from his new release of instrumental works by Laurie Altman. Erickson will be performing music by R. Nathaniel Dett and Modest Mussorgsky in recital at Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton on Saturday at 5 p.m.
At 10:00 this morning, I’ll be joined by composer Zhou Tian, whose “Broken Ink” will be given its US premiere by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rossen Milanov, at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on Sunday at 4 p.m. Our conversation will be followed by a broadcast of Zhou’s brilliantly orchestrated Concerto for Orchestra, written for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. (As an added bonus, tune in early, around 6:15, to hear Zhou’s “Morning after the Deluge,” performed by the Society for New Music.)
It will be raining new releases, hallelujah, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Après le déluge, c’est Classic Ross Amico.
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Communiversity Traffic? Walpurgis Night Movie!
As Princeton becomes an unholy traffic nightmare for Communiversity, I’ll be home watching this:
Presumably the film was retitled “The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman,” because most Americans haven’t the slightest idea of what Walpurgis Night is.
Communiversity will place today from 1 to 6 p.m. For a complete listing of concerts and activities, follow the link:
http://artscouncilofprinceton.org/communiversity/schedule-and-activities/
Enjoy your Walpurgis Night Communiversity!
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Westminster Choir College Saved Sale Planned
If you haven’t heard yet, Rider University has decided to keep Westminster Choir College intact, in Princeton. However, it plans to sell the college and/or its campus. This is certainly preferable to the alternative, with Westminster being dismantled and bits being assimilated into the Rider campus in Lawrenceville. Hopes are for a suitable buyer to step up within the next year. Anybody got $13 million?
http://wwfm.org/post/westminster-finds-reprieve-rider-vote-sell-programs-campus-together
The announcement came shortly after 2:00 this afternoon. This article appeared earlier today on the new WWFM – The Classical Network website:
http://wwfm.org/post/students-community-rally-save-westminster-choir-college
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Sharon Isbin Guitar at McCarter Princeton
With 25 recordings, four Grammy Awards, and a mastery of repertoire ranging from the baroque to the 21st century, it seems there is nothing guitarist Sharon Isbin can’t do well.
Isbin will appear at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton on Saturday at 8 p.m. “The theme of the program, for the most part, is folk-inspired music,” she says. “That would include Spain, Latin America – including South America and Cuba – as well as our own country.
“There will be another couple of works that have been written for me, one of which is by Leo Brouwer, which is based on African love stories.” Also on the program will be music by Andrew York, formerly of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and Bruce MacCombie.
Isbin is the kind of performer composers love to write for. In the case of Brouwer, arguably Cuba’s most celebrated living composer, he sent her, unsolicited, the manuscript of “The Black Decameron.” The piece became an instant classic.
She has also had guitar concertos written for her by a number of other respected composers, including John Corigliano, Tan Dun, Lukas Foss, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner.
A 2015 documentary, “Sharon Isbin: Troubadour,” continues to air on PBS stations across the country. The film was a recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Television Broadcast Award. Videos, including an excerpt from the documentary, news and touring information are posted at her website, http://www.sharonisbin.com.
Isbin will be the first of an impressive triumvirate of performers to appear at McCarter over the course of three days. Iranian-American harpsichord phenomenon Mahan Esfahani will present a stimulating program of works both old and new on Sunday at 3 p.m., and violinist Hilary Hahn will perform Bach, Mozart and Schubert, alongside music by Anton Garcia Abril and Hans Peter Turk, on Monday at 7:30 p.m.
Learn more in my article in today’s Trenton Times.
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2017/03/classical_music_sharon_isbin_m.html
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