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Princeton Reunions Weekend Music on WPRB

Tomorrow, get ready for a ton of princely music on WPRB, as we kick off Princeton University Reunions Weekend with a morning full of works composed or performed by Princeton faculty and alumni.

Needless to say, Princeton University has had an exceptionally rich musical history, between the mid-century experimentalists, the visiting professors and talented students from around the world, and at least two Pulitzer Prize winners (three if you count Milton Babbitt’s lifetime achievement award). The scene remains vibrant, and we’ll hear works representative of Princeton’s current faculty composers and performers. Music by Babbitt, Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, and Roger Sessions will be presented cheek-by-jowl with that of Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns, Isaac Albéniz, and Benjamin Britten.

We’ll have the eye of The Tiger, or at least his or her ear, as we present music composed and performed by Princeton University faculty and alumni, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Orange is the color of our true love’s hair, on Classic Ross Amico.

You’ll find more about this year’s Reunions, including a complete schedule of events, when following this link:

http://alumni.princeton.edu/goinback/reunions/2017/

May 31, 2017
Ringling Bros Circus Radio Tribute

The Big Top will come down for the last time, metaphorically speaking, on May 21. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, an entertainment spectacle that has been part of the fabric of American life for 146 years, will tumble its last acrobat in Uniondale, NY, this weekend.

To mark the end of the era of the traveling circus, a phenomenon with roots reaching back deep into the 19th century, I will be dusting off and refurbishing one of my most popular shows this Thursday morning on WPRB.

Join me as we listen to such works as Douglas Moore’s “The Pageant of P.T. Barnum,” Walter Piston’s “The Incredible Flutist,” Nino Rota’s “La Strada Ballet,” Erik Satie’s “Parade,” and Rodion Shchedrin’s “Old Russian Circus Music.” I’ll also have snappy circus favorites like Julius Fucik’s “Entry of the Gladiators,” Juventino Rosas’ “Over the Waves” (a.k.a. the trapeze music), and Aram Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance.” Perhaps there will even be a circus-oriented film score or two.

I can’t claim that it will be the Greatest Show on Earth. All I know is that it was a big hit when the circus train first rolled into town, back in August of 2015. I’ll be sprucing up the spandex and spangles, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’ll enjoy peanuts and cotton candy for breakfast, on Classic Ross Amico.

May 17, 2017
Nursery Rhymes Mother’s Day Music on WPRB

Three Blind Mice. Old King Cole. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater. All nursery rhymes recollected from childhood.

Join me Thursday morning on WPRB for music inspired by these and more – the children’s books “Peter Pan,” “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” and “Higglety Pigglety Pop!” and fairy tales of Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm – as we salute the contributions of Mother, in advance of Mother’s Day.

We’ll find lots of sense in nonsense, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB and wprb.com. When I was a child, I understood as a child – and I still do, thanks to Mom, on Classic Ross Amico.

May 11, 2017
Mother’s Day Fairy Tale Music on WPRB

It will be the mother of all Mother’s Day shows!

Tell Mom to tune in to WPRB a few days early to enjoy a full playlist of music inspired by fairy tales, nursery rhymes, children’s books, and fables. Composers will include Daniel Dorff, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, Libby Larsen, Anatole Liadov, Robert Moran, Josef Suk, Ernst Toch, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, among others.

Wash behind your ears and wipe your feet before entering, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. We’ll remember Mama, on Classic Ross Amico.

May 10, 2017
Pagan Spring Music for Walpurgis Night on WPRB

Nymphs and satyrs. Bacchus and the Great God Pan. Headman and Hobby Horse. Hecuba and the Goat of Mendes.

Join me this morning on WPRB, as we partake of a pagan spring. In anticipation of Walpurgis Night and a May Day dance around the maypole, we’ll have music by Sir Arnold Bax, Arrigo Boito, Benjamin Britten, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Howard Hanson, Gustav Holst, Nikos Skalkottas, Bedrich Smetana, and more, as witches and warlocks cavort around bonfires, maenads and bassarids run riot, and Druids and wicker men scoff at Christian piety.

We anticipate the “other Hallowe’en,” this morning from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. I’ll be meticulously applying the body paint, on Classic Ross Amico.

IMAGE: “Departure of the Witches,” or “Faust’s Vision” (1878), by Luis Ricardo Falero

April 27, 2017

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