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Pet Music on WPRB This Week

Anyone who has ever taken in a pet knows that the bond between human and animal can be one of the most intimate and rewarding. Our pets trust us; we make them feel secure. We take care of them, and they return our love with evident pleasure and affection.

This Thursday morning on WPRB, we’ll celebrate these special relationships, with music related to our four-legged friends (and perhaps a few winged and finned ones, too). Among our featured works will be Alan Rawsthorne’s “Practical Cats,” Peter Schickele’s “Thurber’s Dogs,” Richard Rodney Bennett’s “Suite for Skip and Sadie,” Alan Hovhaness’ “Fred the Cat,” and Kenneth Leighton’s “Household Pets.” We’ll also have music inspired by famed custodians and protectors of animals, Noah and Saint Francis.

Join me, in memory of my beloved companion, Hannah, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Those beautiful green eyes will forever pierce my heart, on Classic Ross Amico.

August 9, 2017
Beach Music Seascape on WPRB

Flip-flops should only be worn at the beach. I make that proclamation while sitting here, dressed in my Sea Monkey garb.

I hope you’ll join me this Thursday morning for music inspired by the sea and the shore, with a few shanties tossed into the chowder. We’ll hear Mikalojus Ciurlionis’ “The Sea,” Ernest Chausson’s “Poème de l’amour et de la mer,” Cyril Scott’s “Neptune,” Howard Hanson’s “Bold Island Suite,” and Paul Gilson’s “The Sea,” a work that Claude Debussy obviously had very much in mind when he went to compose “La Mer.”

I’ll be picking my teeth with my trident this morning, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. It’s all that swimming gives me this physique, on Classic Ross Amico.

August 3, 2017
Classic Ross Amico’s August Surf & Sand Special

Classic Ross Amico doesn’t take vacations. Nor does he much care for the beach. That said, for this first week of August, it seems like as good a time as any to celebrate surf and sand.

Join me this Thursday morning to hear Mikalojus Ciurlionis’ “The Sea,” Ernest Chausson’s “Poème de l’amour et de la mer,” Cyril Scott’s “Neptune,” Howard Hanson’s “Bold Island Suite,” and Elie Siegmeister’s cycle of piano pieces “Sunday in Brooklyn” (with its concluding movement, “Coney Island”). In addition, there is bound to be a sea shanty or two.

Brace yourself for plenty of salt air and bandshells, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Sea you real soon, on Classic Ross Amico.

Great composers hit the beach: (counter-clockwise from top): George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini, and Benjamin Britten

August 2, 2017
JoAnn Falletta’s WPRB Radio Fest

It’s a Falletta Fest! All recordings of works conducted and/or played by JoAnn Falletta this morning on WPRB.

Falletta is in Princeton with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for this year’s NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, five days of intensive compositional evaluations and consultations, master classes and career-building opportunities, which will culminate in a live concert performance of participating composers’ works. The concert, including four new works and a piece by Institute director Steven Mackey, will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium Saturday at 8 p.m.

We’ll celebrate Falletta’s return by sampling from her vast discography, with orchestral music by, among others, Romeo Cascarino, Kenneth Fuchs, Jack Gallagher, E.J. Moeran, Jerome Moross, Behzad Ranjbaran, Igor Stravinsky, and Marcel Tyberg, performed by orchestras with which Falletta has had fruitful associations, including the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, and the Women’s Philharmonic.

We’ll also listen to a couple of new releases of music by Richard Strauss and Vítězslav Novák, issued on the Naxos label, a rare recording featuring Falletta as guitarist, and two that she made with her husband, the clarinetist Robert Alemany.

Falletta herself will drop by around 9:00 to talk about the institute and some of her other projects. She’s always very busy, with plenty of concerts, festivals and recordings in the pipeline.

I hope you’ll join me this morning for some entrancing musical rarities, courtesy of JoAnn Falletta, on Classic Ross Amico, from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

July 13, 2017
America Through Foreign Eyes on WPRB

Show me the money!

That’s what Richard Wagner said when he was approached to write something for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. He responded with an execrable march, which he himself admitted he had only done for the $5000, a very great sum at the time. America was, after all, the Land of Opportunity.

But not everyone’s motives were so transparently mercenary. Ernest Bloch composed his epic rhapsody for orchestra, “America,” in sincere appreciation of his adopted homeland. Tune in to WPRB this morning to hear these works and others like them, as we celebrate America from foreign perspectives, in anticipation of Independence Day.

We view the promise of America from distant shores this morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. May the Fourth be with you, on Classic Ross Amico.

June 29, 2017

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