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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
Korngold’s “Die Kathrin” on WPRB Sunday

I know it’s so early that even the roosters will be brewing their coffee, but if you want to get a taste of the melodic fecundity and lush orchestrations of Erich Wolfgang Korngold as opera composer, you’ll want to tune in to WPRB tomorrow for “Sunday Morning Opera” with Sandy Steiglitz.

Sandy will be celebrating Korngold’s birthday with a complete recording of the composer’s final opera “Die Kathrin.” The piece is gorgeous. It may not be his most profound work for the stage, but it contains one great melody after another. Also, it is the opera closest in style to his film scores. He completed it in 1937, the same year as his work on “The Prince and the Pauper.” By that time, he had already written his Academy Award winning music for “Anthony Adverse.” “Captain Blood” was two years in the past. The opening of the opera (set outside a cinema!) sounds like it could have been written for “The Adventures of Robin Hood.”

Technically the show runs from 6 to 10 a.m., with the opera beginning at 7; but because of the length, the main attraction this week will begin at 6:45 EDT. It makes no difference to Sandy; she’s there at 5:30 anyway, cleaning the studio and sharing the music she loves. So tune in early. I don’t know anyone who knows as much about opera, in terms of both repertoire and its recorded history, as Sandy does. It’s worth your while getting to know her show.

Hear “Sunday Morning Opera” tomorrow morning on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com. Korngold goes great with breakfast. Happy birthday, EWK!

Renée Fleming sings the Letter Song from “Die Kathrin”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNJRo4K7fs

Korngold plays it (courtesy of Brendan Carroll):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgLXGInLMpc

In case you missed it, here’s an interview I did with Sandy in 2012 for the Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2012/08/sunday_morning_opera_host_sand.html

PHOTO: Erich Wolfgang Korngold in 1937

May 28, 2016
Sunday Morning Opera on WPRB

If you are an opera fan, this is worth checking out and supporting. Sandy is presenting a potpourri of the great singers this morning until 10 ET, at WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com. Call (609) 258-1033 or go to pledge.wprb.com.

SUNDAY MORNING OPERA WITH SANDY

Description:

This program is heard from 5:30-10AM on WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey, 103.3 FM. There is a complete opera each week,and after the opera, if there is time remaining, we celebrate the birthday of a composer or singer. You can also listen online at http://www.wprb.com/

The host and producer is Sandy Steiglitz

Posted on October 16 at 8:01am:

I hope that you will join me for Sunday Morning Opera on October 18th. It’s membership drive time on WPRB. This Sunday morning is our annual membership drive show and we’ll be broadcasting segments devoted to artists that you suggested:Jussi Bjoerling, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Sherrill Milnes, Grace Bumbry, Renata Scotto, Mario Sereni, Hermann Prey, and many others.

Tune in, enjoy, and call with your pledge. A contribution in any amount helps to support WPRB, a unique and diverse outlet that
gives its volunteer hosts complete artistic freedom, and allows me to present a complete, uncut opera every week throughout the year. We’ll have 12 special opera thank-you gifts, first-come first-served, plus a schedule of premiums at various levels. I’ll be looking forward to hearing from you!

The phone number is (609) 258-1033. You can pledge online at pledge.wprb.com. I’ll be starting the program at 5:30 AM ET.
THANKS!!

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October 18, 2015

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