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Arctic Adventure Radio Journey

Once upon a time, a trip to the Pole required dog sleds, pack animals, and an unimaginable surplus of grit. Now all you need is a radio.

I hope you’ll join me this morning on WPRB as we armchair travel to the Arctic, subarctic, and Antarctic, with musical evocations by John Luther Adams, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Paul Moravec, Einar Englund, Nigel Westlake, George Lloyd, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Uuno Klami, Geirr Tveitt, and perhaps even Billy Mayerl. Our itinerary includes stops in Alaska, Lapland, Antarctica, Siberia, and the Arctic Ocean.

We strike camp at dawn. Grab a thermos and some mukluks, and tune in from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Expect a chilly reception, on Classic Ross Amico.

August 18, 2016
Back on Air WWFM The Classical Network

I am pleased to announce that I will be returning to WWFM – The Classical Network for regular air shifts for the first time in over two years. For the rest of the summer and for the foreseeable future, you’ll be able to enjoy my dulcet tones (and, more importantly, my impeccable taste in music) by tuning in on Monday, Wednesday and every other Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. I’ll also be filling in on Tuesday early afternoon for an indefinite period, from noon to 4 p.m. Listen locally at 89.1 FM or online at wwfm.org. A complete list of frequencies is available at the station’s website. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes… It will be interesting to get back to doing live air work again on The Classical Network.

July 18, 2016
Radio Host’s Classical to Jazz Marathon on WRTI

How many radio hosts can do a “Wozzeck” warm-up show and then turn around and introduce an evening of jazz favorites? Well, this one will do his best.

Join me this afternoon — and this evening — on WRTI, as I fill in for Mark Pinto and Jeff Duperon. I’ll be on at noon with some music of Bach and Barber. Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck” is coming up at 1:00, from the Lyric of Opera of Chicago. In between, it will be the opera preview.

New releases, hosted by yours truly, will follow at 3:00. Then it’s “Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection” with Kile Smith and Jack Moore at 5:00. The focus this week will be on music by American composer Edward MacDowell.

Jazz begins at 6. Somewhere along the way, I’ll grab some tea and a sandwich. Listen today, in Philadelphia at 90.1 FM. You’ll find a full list of frequencies at wrti.org.

June 4, 2016
Ross Amico Jazz WRTI Tonight

If you’ve never had the chance to hear Classic Ross Amico spinning the jazz, I’ll be donning the pork pie from 6 to 9 tonight on WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia and at wrti.org. Stay cool, fools!

June 4, 2016
Spring Music Playlist on WPRB

Right now we’re listening to Claude Debussy’s “Printemps,” our latest offering on a playlist designed to appease the elements and bring stability to wildly mercurial spring. Yet to come this morning, music by Jean Sibelius, Lodewijk Mortelmans, Joachim Raff, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and Joseph Marx. If the timings are right, that is. I’m as flighty as a cuckoo, drunk on too much pollen. We’re celebrating spring until 11:00 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

May 19, 2016

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