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March Music Madness on WPRB This Morning

An all-march morning? That’s the fact, Jack!

Marches for band. Symphonic marches. Light music marches. Marches for piano. Marches for string quartet. Funeral marches. Coronation marches. Circus marches.

I hope you’ll join me this morning on WPRB, as we are seized by March Madness. That’s right, five blessed hours of marches. Fear not, it won’t be all march-or-die, an incessant barrage of three-minute quick marches in 4/4 time. Some of the marches will be embedded in larger works. Some of the works will merely suggest marches.

It’s a beautiful morning for a brisk March. I’ll be banging a ladle against the trash can lid at 6:00. Join me for a good stretch of the legs, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’ll be sounding off – left, left, left, right, left – on Classic Ross Amico.

March 23, 2017
March Madness on WPRB Radio

Can’t… stop… the MADNESS!

Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we’re overtaken by March Madness. We’ll have a full morning of marches. That’s right. It’s so mad a concept, it hardly seems feasible. Yet we will work miracles in an attempt to avoid a rigid playlist of 3-minute pieces in 4/4 time.

I’ve already got sets of marches piling up for two pianos by Beethoven and Schubert, a symphony for band (and marching machine) by Morton Gould, and works in larger forms that incorporate notable march movements by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest composers.

We rise at oh-dark-thirty to begin marching at 6. I hope you’ll join me from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. These boots are made for marching, on Classic Ross Amico.

March 22, 2017
Irish Music & Elgar with Ross Amico on WPRB

Music on Irish themes will be as numerous as the shamrocks of the field, with nary a snake to be found, thanks be to St. Patrick. This morning on WPRB, we’ll have works by Irish composers, composers of Irish descent, and plenty of Irish-for-a-day. I hope you’ll join me for an abundance of reels, whimsy, and sentiment for the Emerald Isle.

At 10:00, I’ll be joined by Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Lyndon-Gee will guest conduct the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium this Sunday at 4 p.m., in a program featuring music by Sir Edward Elgar and Carl Nielsen. Lyndon-Gee, a prolific recording artist who has garnered five Grammy nominations, will share a few insights into this weekend’s program, and then surprise us with a selection of his recorded performances. Refreshingly, his musical interests lay well off the beaten path.

Don’t let the Italian surname fool you. My mother’s people came from Ireland. That said, I’ll be needin’ to kiss the blarney stone to get through five hours of music and conversation, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I’ve got dark circles around my half-Irish eyes, on Classic Ross Amico.

March 16, 2017
Black Composers on WPRB

Florence Price’s “Mississippi Suite.” Joseph White’s Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Symphonic Variations on an African Air.” David Baker’s “Three Ethnic Dances” for clarinet and orchestra. Adolphus Hailstork’s “Done Made My Vow.” George Walker’s “Piano Concerto.” Duke Ellington’s “Black, Brown and Beige.”

These are some of the pieces we’ll be listening to this morning, as we explore the diversity of music of the black experience, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’ll be serving your coffee black, on Classic Ross Amico.

February 23, 2017
Black History Month Classical Music on WPRB

Now that we’re all finished with the Groundhog, St. Valentine (snowed out, actually), and the Presidents, we can turn our attention fully to Black History Month. Tomorrow morning on WPRB, we’ll survey over 200 years worth of music by composers of color.

We’ll hear pieces by Joseph Boulogne (the Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Levi Dawson, R. Nathaniel Dett, Duke Ellington, Adolphus Hailstork, Ulysses Kay, Florence Price, William Grant Still, George Walker, José Silvestre White Lafitte (a.k.a. Joseph White), and others.

I hope you’ll join me as I celebrate Black History Month, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Black is the new black, on Classic Ross Amico.

PHOTOS: (clockwise from left) Joseph White, Florence Price, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

February 23, 2017

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