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Pet Music on WPRB This Week

Anyone who has ever taken in a pet knows that the bond between human and animal can be one of the most intimate and rewarding. Our pets trust us; we make them feel secure. We take care of them, and they return our love with evident pleasure and affection.

This Thursday morning on WPRB, we’ll celebrate these special relationships, with music related to our four-legged friends (and perhaps a few winged and finned ones, too). Among our featured works will be Alan Rawsthorne’s “Practical Cats,” Peter Schickele’s “Thurber’s Dogs,” Richard Rodney Bennett’s “Suite for Skip and Sadie,” Alan Hovhaness’ “Fred the Cat,” and Kenneth Leighton’s “Household Pets.” We’ll also have music inspired by famed custodians and protectors of animals, Noah and Saint Francis.

Join me, in memory of my beloved companion, Hannah, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Those beautiful green eyes will forever pierce my heart, on Classic Ross Amico.

August 9, 2017
Schoenberg vs Weill Swimwear

Classical music swimwear contest: Arnold Schoenberg (left) or Kurt Weill?

We’re off to the beach this morning, with music inspired by sea and sand. It will be wall-to-wall bathing beauties until 11:00 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

August 3, 2017
Beach Music Seascape on WPRB

Flip-flops should only be worn at the beach. I make that proclamation while sitting here, dressed in my Sea Monkey garb.

I hope you’ll join me this Thursday morning for music inspired by the sea and the shore, with a few shanties tossed into the chowder. We’ll hear Mikalojus Ciurlionis’ “The Sea,” Ernest Chausson’s “Poème de l’amour et de la mer,” Cyril Scott’s “Neptune,” Howard Hanson’s “Bold Island Suite,” and Paul Gilson’s “The Sea,” a work that Claude Debussy obviously had very much in mind when he went to compose “La Mer.”

I’ll be picking my teeth with my trident this morning, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. It’s all that swimming gives me this physique, on Classic Ross Amico.

August 3, 2017
Classic Ross Amico’s August Surf & Sand Special

Classic Ross Amico doesn’t take vacations. Nor does he much care for the beach. That said, for this first week of August, it seems like as good a time as any to celebrate surf and sand.

Join me this Thursday morning to hear Mikalojus Ciurlionis’ “The Sea,” Ernest Chausson’s “Poème de l’amour et de la mer,” Cyril Scott’s “Neptune,” Howard Hanson’s “Bold Island Suite,” and Elie Siegmeister’s cycle of piano pieces “Sunday in Brooklyn” (with its concluding movement, “Coney Island”). In addition, there is bound to be a sea shanty or two.

Brace yourself for plenty of salt air and bandshells, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Sea you real soon, on Classic Ross Amico.

Great composers hit the beach: (counter-clockwise from top): George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini, and Benjamin Britten

August 2, 2017
Granados Premiere on WPRB for 150th Year

Plenty of world premiere recordings this morning on WPRB, thanks to the Naxos label, as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Spanish master Enrique Granados. Right now, we’re listening to his “Suite on Galician Songs,” a 30-minute, folk-inflected work for orchestra. In the 8:00 hour, we’ll hear his “Song of the Stars,” a masterpiece gone missing for nearly a century, scored for piano, organ and three choruses. We’ll also have songs, instrumental music, the complete one-act opera “Goyescas,” and the rarely-heard symphonic poem “Dante,” between now and 11 a.m. EDT. We subscribe to the maxim “No Spain, no gain,” on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

July 27, 2017

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