Tra-la! It’s May! The lusty month of May!
Join me this afternoon for a dance around the maypole. We’ll have a selection of madrigals, music inspired by birds and flowers, some morris dances, and musical evocations of Robin Hood, a figure traditionally associated with May Day festivities. Along the way, we’ll mark the birthdays, I hope, of Hugo Alfven, Jon Leifs, Leo Sowerby, and Walter Susskind.
We’ll spring into May, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
Spring has sprung! Join me this afternoon, as we celebrate the hard-won arrival of this season of renewal with music of vernal inspiration. I’ll be sowing the fields from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.
Speaking of renewal, have you made your commitment to support The Classical Network yet? Tomorrow is the culmination of our Bach 500. Help us curtail fundraising and to enjoy as much of Bach’s music as possible on his birthday, March 21, by making a donation now at wwfm.org or 1-888-232-1212. Thanks!
Spring needs our help! A good part of the season so far has been cloaked, in the Philadelphia-Princeton area, in temperatures in the 50s and 60s. I’d have no complaints, except for the fact that a month from now, you know it is going to be 90 degrees!
This Thursday morning on WPRB, we’ll stop short of human sacrifice, but we will try to breathe life into the season with music of a vernal inclination. Among possible candidates for the playlist are “Enter Spring” by Frank Bridge, the cantata “The Romance of Spring” by Zdeněk Fibich, “The Myth of Spring” by Lodewijk Mortelmans, “A Spell for Green Corn” by the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Joachim Raff’s “Ode to Spring,” and the most thrilling performance of Robert Schumann’s “Spring Symphony” you have never heard.
Failing that, we’ll start locking people in the Wicker Man, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. One way or another we’ll be lolling in the daffodils, on Classic Ross Amico.
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