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Halloween Radio Show Vampires Werewolves & More

Vampires! Werewolves! Frankenstein’s monster! The Mummy! Edgar Allan Poe! Not to mention, Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee…

All will be represented this morning, as I take to the airwaves for my annual show devoted to presentiments of Hallowe’en.

Thank you again for your generosity during last week’s membership drive. We raked in a lot of dough. However, the station is still a little short of its $60,000 goal. Don’t worry, we won’t be pitching this week, beyond a reminder, perhaps, at the top of the hour, but WPRB is leaving its pledge page up through the end of the week, just in case you find you’ve got some extra cash burning a hole in your pocket or you’ve inherited some bones from a rich uncle. If that’s the case, consider acquiring some nice stickers, access to downloads, a calendar, or some sporty WPRB apparel by donating here:

http://wprb.com/wprb-membership-drive-2016/

Thank you for keeping WPRB… ALIIIIIIIIIIIVE.

We’ll be holding flashlights under our chins, from 6 to 11 a.m. EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. The bridge is out; you’ll have to spend the night, on Classic Ross Amico.

October 27, 2016
Picture Perfect Hiatus Show Future Uncertain

“Picture Perfect” is going on hiatus. I know the show has generated a lot of enthusiasm, and I am grateful for all the wonderful feedback I have received here. Also, the show is just plain fun to put together, if usually a lot of work!

Recognizing its potential to draw in listeners from beyond the classical music fold (after all, film music is what introduced me to the glories of the orchestra), I am still looking for ways to keep it alive. As I posted here some time ago, if I am able to secure underwriting I will have more leverage.

In the meantime, I am continuing to submit shows for syndication. Unfortunately, I am noticing that some stations have had to suspend their internet streaming because of changes to copyright law. You can thank the Copyright Royalty Board and SoundExchange for that.

The only station I can find that is still streaming is Geneva Community Radio, which has posted on its home page that it will temporarily suspend its service on September 24, as they relocate their streaming set-up. At any rate, 1:00 p.m. EDT on a Tuesday afternoon is hardly an ideal time to listen to “Picture Perfect,” but if you just can’t live without the show, here’s a link:

http://genevaradio.blogspot.com/p/listen.html

Clearly, something needs to be done in order for the show to be heard in this area. I could always move my production of it to another station, but ideally I would like to be paid for it, and I would like it to be accessible via standard radio (as opposed to HD2, which would require listening on special equipment). I’ll get it straightened out eventually. In the meantime, you can always catch up on the WWFM webcasts here:

http://wwfm.org/webcasts_picture_perfect.shtml

I may be choking down shriveled carrots now, but I’m confident this is only intermission. Hope to see you on the other side.

July 8, 2016
Spring’s Short Stay WPRB Radio Show

Programming a radio show around the weather is always a tricky proposition. Yesterday, I made the assertion that spring needs our help! Then what followed was a glorious day in the Philadelphia-Princeton area. It has been a crazy season so far, and though the temperatures seem to be moderating for the next several days, we’ll be back down into the 60s (with rain) for Saturday, before sling-shotting into the upper 80s by the end of next week. Is it my imagination, or is “spring” getting shorter in this region? We seem to flip from winter, virtually into full summer, with a few, sporadic lovely days in between. Let’s face it, there are so few completely bearable days in a year. It’s amazing that man ever made it this far.

But I digress. I had better have some more caffeine before I pursue that line of thought any further, or I will never make it through the day.

Join me, won’t you, as we attempt to stabilize matters, with musical evocations of the season by Sir Arnold Bax, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Frank Bridge, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Claude Debussy, Zdeněk Fibich, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Alexander Glazunov, Hermann Goetz, Joseph Marx, Darius Milhaud, Lodewijk Mortelmans, Joachim Raff, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Jean Sibelius, or as many of those as we can get to.

I can’t promise you won’t need a sweater or an umbrella, but I can promise you some truly gorgeous music. In particular, I hope you will stick around for a stunning performance of Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 (a.k.a. the “Spring Symphony”). It’s by a no-name orchestra (the Klassische Philharmonie Düsseldorf) – and a student one at that – but it’s a real corker! The timpanist sounds like he should be auditioning for “The Rite of Spring.”

In any case, the weather is always the same in my bunker deep beneath Bloomberg Hall on the campus of Princeton University. I hope you’ll join me, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Every morning starts out steamy with an 80 percent chance of chaos, on Classic Ross Amico.

May 19, 2016
Early Bird Gets Bing Irish Radio WPRB

I know I’m not a big one for getting up early – and I like to let everyone know about it – but I if I get there before 6:00 tomorrow morning, maybe I’ll cue up a few Bing Crosby cuts, just to get everyone in the mood. Otherwise, it will be all Irish (genuine as well as faux) from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

March 17, 2016
Classic Ross Amico Moves to WPRB Radio

It’s only fitting, I think, that on Moving Day that I’d have stayed up half the night. So be good friends, won’t you, piece out my imperfections with your thoughts, and do be careful with my stuff.

This morning, Classic Ross Amico moves to its new time slot on WPRB. It may be a difference of only 24 hours, but I’m never one to do anything by half-measures. We’ll employ so many modes of transportation as to make Phileas Fogg’s head spin – automobile, ship, airplane, train, bicycle, skates, sleigh, and even sun chariot – all represented in works by 20th and 21st century composers. Come to think of it, a time machine would have come in handy. Leave it to me to invoke the wrong Verne novel.

We settle into our new digs this morning, from 6 to 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Get ready to cover a lot of ground, on Classic Ross Amico.

February 5, 2016

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