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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 at 150 A Musical Celebration on WPRB

Enrique Granados’ life may have been cut short in 1916, at the age of only 49, but his music continues to age well. Granados is widely celebrated for his evocative aural postcards of his native Spain, most notably his collections of piano miniatures, the “Spanish Dances,” and “Goyescas” (the latter inspired by paintings of Francisco Goya). But there was so much more to this remarkable composer.

Join me this Thursday morning on WPRB, as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Granados’ birth. We’ll get the day started with a full five hours of his music, including an assortment of his rarely-heard orchestral, choral and chamber works, and, yes, even a recording of his one-act opera “Goyescas,” which the composer cannily adapted from his popular piano pieces.

Performers will include Ataulfa Argenta, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Maria Bayo, the Beaux Arts Trio, Montserrat Caballe, Alicia de Larrocha, Victoria de los Angeles, Andres Segovia, Ramón Vargas and Granados himself.

The playlist will also feature the rarely-heard symphonic poem “Dante,” and world premiere recordings of the “Suite on Galician Folk Songs,” “Song of the Stars,” and the lyric poem “Liliana,” as arranged by Granados’ friend and champion Pablo Casals.

If you’re a fan of fandangos with a craving for castanets, you’ll want to join me, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. We’ll do it up grand for Granados, on Classic Ross Amico.

July 27, 2017

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