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St Patrick’s Day Music & Princeton Symphony Preview

It’s never too early to begin celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, so I hope you’ll join me early tomorrow morning on WPRB. Just as St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland, we’ll drive all the cobwebs out of our brains with cleansing reels, tin whistles, and sentimental airs.

We’ll have music from Ireland and on Irish themes, with works by native composers John Larchet, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, and Joan Trimble; composers of Irish descent Edward Joseph Collins, Henry Cowell, and Augusta Holmès; and Irishmen-for-a-day Ludwig van Beethoven, Frank Martin, and Romeo Cascarino, for starters.

We’ll cram in all the weeping and drinking and step dancing and fighting that we can before 10:00, at which time we’ll shift gears, and I will be joined by Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Lyndon-Gee will be guest conducting the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium this Sunday afternoon at 4, 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 talk a bit about the weekend’s program, and then surprise us with a selection of his recorded performances. His catalog skews heavily toward unusual and neglected repertoire, which very much makes him a man after my own heart.

It will be all the green beer you can drink, tomorrow morning from 6 to 10 EDT. Then we’ll hide all the bottles for a visit from Christopher Lyndon-Gee from 10 to 11, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I hope you’ll assist me in setting a Guinness world-record (if you know what I mean), on Classic Ross Amico.

March 15, 2017
St. Patrick’s Day Music Celebration & Baby Got Bach

They say that St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland. I’m in the process of driving all the mileage out of my car. This week the odometer passed 200,000 miles. To give you an idea of how much that is, I could have driven back and forth to Ireland more than 24 times. When my mother’s people came to America, it’s doubtful they envisioned one of their descendants in a beater with one hubcap missing and a door plowed in. But that, my friends, is what is known as upward mobility.

I hope you’ll join me this morning as we get all misty-eyed over occupation, famine, political unrest and poor dentistry, with a nostalgic glance at the Emerald Isle. You’ll experience heart-tugging pastoralism and delirious reels, courtesy of native composers John Larchet, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, and Joan Trimble; composers of Irish descent Henry Cowell, Augusta Holmès, and Sir Arthur Sullivan; and Irish-for-a-day Ludwig van Beethoven, Percy Grainger, and Frank Martin.

We’ll retire to the pub for ten minutes, around 9:00, to hear what pianist Orli Shaham has to say about her interactive program, Baby Got Bach, designed for kids 3 to 6, which she’ll be bringing to Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium this Sunday at 1 p.m. Joining her for that special event will be So Percussion and Rachel Richardson of American Ballet Theatre. For more information, look online at princetonuniversityconcerts.org.

Then it will be back to weeping and drinking and step dancing and fighting, as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’re looking over a four-leaf clover, on Classic Ross Amico.

March 17, 2016
Beethoven Irish Folk & Quiet Man on WPRB

Coming up in the next hour, Robert White will perform some folk songs set by that great Irish composer, Beethoven. We’ll also hear some of Victor Young’s music for the John Ford classic, “The Quiet Man” (1952).

We celebrate St. Patrick’s Day until 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. If you miss this show, you’ll regret it to your dying day, if ever you live that long.

March 17, 2016
Irish Music on WPRB St Patricks Day

Right now on Classic Ross Amico, we’re listening to Frank Martin’s “Piano Trio on Irish Folk Tunes.” Yet to come, Sir Arthur Sullivan’s “Irish Symphony,” and selections performed by the great Irish tenor, John McCormack (pictured). We’ll also have music by Irish composer Joan Trimble. We’re hoisting a few for St. Patty’s this morning, until 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

March 17, 2016
St Patricks Day Classic Ross Amico

Get ready to get your Irish up! Brace yourself for the cosmic convergence of St. Patrick’s Day and Classic Ross Amico.

Join me tomorrow morning, when we’ll have music from Ireland and on Irish themes, with works by native composers Philip Hammond, Sir Hamilton Harty, John Larchet, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, and Joan Trimble; composers of Irish descent Edward Joseph Collins, Henry Cowell, Augusta Holmès and Sir Arthur Sullivan; and Irishmen-for-a-day Sir Arnold Bax, Ludwig van Beethoven, Percy Grainger and Frank Martin, for starters.

We’ll take a short break in the 9:00 hour to speak with pianist Orli Shaham, who will be bringing her interactive program, Baby Got Bach, designed for kids 3 to 6, to Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium this Sunday at 1 p.m. Joining her for this special event will be So Percussion and Rachel Richardson of American Ballet Theatre. For more information, look online at princetonuniversityconcerts.org.

I hope you’ll join me in hoisting a Guinness, weeping over a sentimental air or two, and taking the occasional shillelagh in the teeth, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Our Irish eyes are smiling (on our mother’s side), on Classic Ross Amico.

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March 16, 2016

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