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Tag: Summer Music

Lazy Summer Music Sleepy Lagoon Sweetness and Light

This week on “Sweetness and Light,” I invite you to join me by the sleepy lagoon, for an hour of languid music for a lazy summer day.

We’ll hear easygoing works by Eric Coates, Cyril Scott, Frederick Delius, Jerome Moross, Leroy Anderson, Sergei Prokofiev, and Claude Debussy.

Kick back with a cool drink and no cares. It’s summertime, and the living is easy. We’ll be drowsing in a musical hammock, on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

August 3, 2024
Bernstein Honegger Summer Music Beethoven

I’m not a big fan of compilation CDs, but this one happens to contain a beautiful performance of Arthur Honegger’s “Pastorale d’été” (“Summer Pastorale”), perfect music for a summer’s afternoon, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, on his birthday. Listen for Honegger’s allusion to Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony.

And, while we’re on the subject, Bernstein talks about and conducts the “Pastoral” Symphony, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPd4jc-c_qY

August 25, 2020
Ronald Binge British Light Music For Summer

In a time when binge-watching is all the rage, how about a little Binge listening? British light music master Ronald Binge was born 110 years ago today. Here’s some carefree summer music if ever there was any.

“Sailing By”

“The Watermill”

“Elizabethan Serenade”

July 15, 2020
Cool Classical Music for Hot Summer Days

It’s going to be another hot one! Before air conditioning, one struck out for the country, hit the local watering hole, or staggered to the shade of the nearest grove. The 17 year-old Felix Mendelssohn composed his overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” while secluding himself in the family garden. The work was completed on this date in 1826.

Join me this afternoon as we seek relief with music inspired by gardens, fountains, and forests. We’ll think cooling thoughts, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

August 6, 2018
Ross Amico’s Summer Music Escape & So Percussion

Nocturnes, gardens, getaways and plenty of water – that’s Classic Ross Amico’s prescription for summer survival this week.

Perhaps you are fond of summer. Or perhaps, like me, you live in a third-floor walk-up in the middle of a paved-over hell-hole, in which case you probably harbor more ambivalent feelings. To be fair, yesterday was actually quite lovely.

Either way, I hope you’ll join me this morning for music related in some way to summer and summery diversions. We’ll have vacation music, works about leisurely pursuits, water music, and aural evocations of perfumed breezes wafting through gently swaying greenery.

Members of So Percussion will drop by in the 8:00 hour to talk a bit about their own positive contribution to the season, the So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI), now in progress at locations in and around Princeton University. The two week program for college-age percussionists and composers is chock-full of free concerts, some of them in very public places, such as Princeton Record Exchange, Small World Coffee, and Albert Hinds Plaza. If you haven’t looked into it, you can find more information and the complete schedule here:

http://sopercussion.com/sosiconcerts

SoSI runs through August 1.

It’s only two months until autumn. Think cool thoughts and stay hydrated with Classic Ross Amico. I’ll be poring over the Farmer’s Almanac from 6 to 11 a.m. ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com.

PHOTO: No one captures the creepy agonies and ecstasies of summer quite like Edvard Munch

July 23, 2015

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