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Diabolical Halloween Music on WPRB

The music is so compelling, it’s diabolical!

This Thursday morning on WPRB, with the approach of Halloween, prepare yourself for some wild rides. There will be heart-pounding sprints through nocturnal forests; breathless pursuits by witches, demons, and djinns; and white-knuckle plunges into the abyss.

We’ll hurtle out of control, as modes of transportation go awry, cower under the blankets at the call of ghostly huntsmen, and even experience a literal “night mare.”

We’ll be pursued, kidnapped, and narrowly avert damnation, this Thursday morning, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. If we’re not exactly pure, at least we’re chased, on Classic Ross Amico.

October 25, 2017
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
Spooky Music & Beethoven’s 9th on WPRB

After a dark and stormy Wednesday – a totally perfect day for spooky music – Thursday in Princeton is projected to be partly cloudy with a high near 70. Curses!

That said, we’ll do our best to keep Hallowe’en in our hearts, with music about ghosts, vampires, witches, demons, werewolves, headless horsemen, and psychopathic murderers. You know, the kind of thing you’ve come to expect on Thursday mornings.

In addition to all that, we’ll have a treat in the form of a visit from conductor Mark Laycock, who generally posts his comments on this page from Berlin, Germany. Mark is in Princeton this week and has agreed to stop by the studios to say hello at around 9:00 this morning. Mark’s Princeton performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony last year with the Wiener KammerOrchester and Westminster Symphonic Choir, presented in honor of the 100th birthday of William H. Scheide, will air on PBS in November. (Locally, it can be seen on WHYY TV, on November 9 at 9 p.m.)

Children of the night! What beautiful music they’ll make, this morning from 6 to 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com. We’ll be handing out dimes in lieu of candy, on Classic Ross Amico.

October 29, 2015

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