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Spooky Halloween Music on WPRB

Now that you’ve pledged your support to all – or at least one – of my radio stations (and I hope you have), it’s time to sit back and enjoy some music.

At the height of this most glorious season comes the greatest of holidays – Hallowe’en! Hallowe’en has always been my favorite. I love it so, I spell it with an apostrophe, just to extend the pleasure.

This Thursday morning on WPRB, we’ll get a leg up on the mischief and the incipient tooth decay, with a blend of the chillies and the sillies. We’ll hear spooky works like André Caplet’s “Conte fantastique” (after Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”), Henry Cowell’s “The Banshee,” and George Crumb’s “A Haunted Landscape,” alongside such light-hearted treats as Kurt Schwertsik’s “Dracula’s House-and-Court Music,” Frederic Curzon’s “Dance of an Ostracised Imp,” and Billy Mayerl’s “Bats in the Belfry.” In addition, Christopher Lee will give a virtuoso performance, assuming all the roles, in Igor Stravinsky’s take on the Faust legend, “The Soldier’s Tale.”

The best preventative for having your trees draped with toilet paper is to join me tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com. We’ll be cutting holes in our parents’ bed sheets and handing out dimes to make the kids sad, on Classic Ross Amico.

October 27, 2016
WPRB Thanks & Pledge Drive Extension

I’d like to extend a note of personal thanks to everyone who contributed to WPRB 103.3 FM yesterday morning during Classic Ross Amico. It was kind of a slow start, and then, at a point, when it finally got busy, we were understaffed with telephone volunteers, possibly dropping a few calls, yet we managed to raise something like $1500.

Your support demonstrates not only that you appreciate all that I do, getting out of bed at 4:00 in the morning, putting together an interesting program, interviewing guests from the arts community, and most of all, sharing the music, it also shows that you care about maintaining an independent, locally-based alternative to the bland homogeneity that settles drowsily across the playlists and presentation heard on many other radio stations.

It’s heartening that our contributors have been so generous and, as always, enthusiastic. However, the station still came up somewhat short of its $60,000 goal. Therefore, WPRB is leaving up its pledge page for another week. We won’t be hard pitching over the air, but we will put out the call occasionally, for anyone who really wanted to contribute but either missed the opportunity or could not.

Sorry, the special “Classic Ross Amico” thank you gifts of lovingly assembled CDs are no longer available (well, maybe, if you contact me directly, but you need to make a pledge to the WPRB page); however, the stickers, the downloads, the calendar and the WPRB apparel are all still yours for the taking, for the next week only. Follow the link to make a pledge and claim your gifts:

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

I’d also like to thank the labels, performers and distributors who were so kind as to help me secure premiums for the drive: John Baker of Affetto Records, Clipper Erickson, piano, of Westminster Conservatory, Tom Steenland of Starkland Records, Becky Starobin of Bridge Records, Inc., and Gail Wein of Classical Music Communications.

Thanks also to WPRB’s Sandy Steiglitz, Marvin Rosen and Jack Hollingsworth for donating their time and on-air talent and for helping to answer the telephones. Nobody’s too proud at WPRB, unless it be the justifiable pride of sharing unusual music with our devoted listeners. Thank you again for your support!

October 21, 2016
WPRB Membership Drive Last Day Support Classic Ross

This is it – the final day of the WPRB Membership Drive. Hopefully you’ll have something left for the mighty Classic Ross Amico.

Take a gander at our special thank you premiums, lovingly assembled in a photo album on my Facebook page, and pledge your support of independent radio. These gifts will be available only during my time on the air this morning, from 6 to 11 EDT. Quantities are limited, and they are only available to those who phone. My apologies to those who plan to pledge online. I’m thankful to you, too!

Sunday Morning Opera’s Sandy Steiglitz will be my co-pilot this morning, and Classical Discoveries’ Marvin Rosen will be helping me out on the phones. Please call 609-258-1033 and make a pledge in whatever amount. No pledge is too small, but intriguing thank you gifts are available for any pledge over $45.

Help this clean-up batter not to strike out. Listen in at WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com. We’ll be sampling from the thank you gifts all morning long. Thank you for your support, and here’s to another year of great radio, on Classic Ross Amico!

October 20, 2016
Support WPRB Classical Music Pledge Drive

I’ll be answering phones for my friend, Marvin Rosen, tomorrow morning at WPRB. Marvin has been a consistent champion of contemporary composers for the past 20 years, on his program Classical Discoveries, broadcasting beautiful and worthwhile music that very few in radio will touch.

Consider supporting him with a pledge tomorrow, from 5 to 11 a.m. EDT. That’s an early start, even for Marvin! We’re all volunteers there. For us, it’s a labor of love, and I’m not sure anyone loves what they do more than Marvin. Call 609-258-1033. Show him you care, and pick up a nice thank you gift in the process.

Then, if you’re able, don’t forget Classic Ross Amico on Thursday morning, from 6 to 11. In a kind of Faustian pact, our positions will be reversed, the servant shall become the master, and Marvin will be answering the phones for me. Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha! We’ll both have some fantastic CDs on offer, yours to claim for a pledge of $45. You can view Marvin’s list here:

http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/index_cd_premiums_2016_temporary_file.html

My list will be up tomorrow.

As an added bonus, Sandy Steiglitz, host of “Sunday Morning Opera,” will be my co-host on Thursday, so I will be very fortunate indeed to have all my radio friends around me.

Thank you for supporting the diverse, creative, and idiosyncratic programming on this community-driven, independent radio station. Again, call 609-258-1033, or pledge online at wprb.com. Please note: thank you gifts are available only to those who call. That doesn’t mean we appreciate our online supporters any the less! Thank you on behalf of WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

October 18, 2016
Support WPRB Opera Radio & Fall Membership Drive

Keeping opera on the air these days takes more than just a spear and magic helmet.

We’re looking to raise funds for “Sunday Morning Opera,” as WPRB 103.3 FM continues with its Fall Membership Drive. I’ll be answering phones for Sandy until 10:00. Nobody knows more about opera than she. If her thoughtful blend of the classic and the unusual gets your Sundays off to a good start, call 609-258-1033, or pledge your support at wprb.com.

Sandy will be my co-host this Thursday as we sample from more than two dozen unique thank you gifts in an attempt to lure you into supporting Classic Ross Amico. I hope you will do your part to fuel the diverse, creative, and idiosyncratic programming on this community-driven, independent radio station. Call 609-258-1033, and thank you!

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

October 16, 2016

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