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Aussie Composers Brumby Hill & Beyond on WPRB

As the sun rises over the ‘roos, I hope you’ll join me for a morning of music from the Land Down Under. We’ll enjoy FIVE HOURS of music by Australian composers, including Colin Brumby, who died on January 3rd at the age of 84. Repertoire will range from a symphony by seminal antipodean composer Alfred Hill, influential in both Australia and New Zealand, to an experimental work by a creative artist of the current generation, Carl Vine. Also represented will be a Master of the Queen’s Music, a critic for the New York Herald Tribune, and a figure better known as a conductor, who had his career destroyed because of a lurid scandal involving both sex and witchcraft. If that’s not enough, I’ll also toss in a didgeridoo or two.

Join me as we travel Down Under, to remember the late Colin Brumby and explore the musical outback (from the perspective of the myopic West). It’s all music from Australia, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. I’ll be wrestling crocodiles and savage koalas, on Classic Ross Amico.

January 11, 2018
Australian Classical Music WPRB

With the recent death of composer Colin Brumby on January 3 at the age of 84, it occurred to me that I have never given Australia the WPRB treatment. Therefore, get ready to suffer some serious jet lag, as we embark for the antipodes and five hours of music from the Land Down Under.

We’ll hear from composers who found world renown in London, and others who chose to remain at home to find inspiration in their native traditions and geography. Among our featured composers will be John Antill, John Carmichael, Ross Edwards, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Sir Eugene Goossens, Matthew Hindson, Peter Sculthorpe, and Brumby himself.

I hope you’ll join me this Thursday morning for a full playlist of didgeridoos and don’ts, from 6 to 11 EST on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. If the crocodiles don’t get you, the dingoes will, on Classic Ross Amico.

January 10, 2018
DJ Bone Soir WPRB’s Skeleton Dream Buffet

Thank you, DJ Bone Soir, for braving the weather this morning so that I didn’t have to. M. Soir, who is a double bassist, is the host of Skeleton Dream Buffet with DJ Bone Soir, which can be heard Fridays from 2-5 p.m. EST. As M. Soir observes, we all have xylophones in our chests. Dem bones will be rattling until 11:00 this morning (at least), on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. I’ve got a femur, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

January 4, 2018
Snowpocalypse Cancels Radio Show Old Man Retreats

I didn’t learn until this afternoon about the latest snowpocalypse that’s barreling up the coast and expected to make life a living hell for everyone in its wake for the next 36 hours or more.

So I hope you don’t mind if I err on the side of caution and defer to those intrepid, younger souls who live within walking distance of Princeton University campus to do whatever they will, this Thursday morning on WPRB 103.3 FM. The outgoing and incoming program directors are working hard to inspire anyone with snowshoes and a dream to commit to a few hours in front of the microphone.

Me? I plan to burrow in deep with a book and get reacquainted with the insides of my eyelids. Hey, I’ve done my share of driving in snow. Back in the days when I was still considered an essential link in the Emergency Broadcast System, I did so even after the highways were officially closed. That was then. This is now.

Thank you, WPRB, for your understanding, and to whoever steps up and into my snow boots tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EST, Classic Ross Amico salutes you.

January 4, 2018
The Bell Tolls Remembering 2017 Losses

No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

– John Donne

Remembering those we lost in 2017, until 11:00 a.m. EST on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

December 28, 2017

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