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Haydn Anniversary Celebration on WPRB

Tomorrow morning, on the eve of the anniversary of the birth of Franz Joseph Haydn (on March 31, 1732), we’ll anticipate the great day with music inspired by Haydn, music by Haydn’s colleagues, and rarely-heard works by Haydn himself.

Other composers will include Johannes Brahms, Norman Dello Joio, Marcel Grandjany, Roman Hoffstetter, Anton Kraft, Andre Previn, Maurice Ravel, Johann Peter Salomon, Alfred Schnittke, Ananda Sukarlan, and Joseph Weigl, Haydn’s godson. We’ll even have a piano concerto by Haydn Wood, who was named for Haydn by his music-mad parents, though they pronounced it “Hayden.”

At 10:00, I’ll be joined by members of Boheme Opera NJ, who will talk a little bit about the company’s upcoming production of “Lucia di Lammermoor,” which will be performed at The College of New Jersey’s TCNJ-Kendall Hall on April 7 at 8 p.m. and April 9 at 3 p.m., so we might just hear a selection or two by Donizetti, as well.

Otherwise, it will be a prolonged game of Haydn seek, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Join me for a full morning of hidden Haydn, on Classic Ross Amico.

March 29, 2017
March Music Madness on WPRB This Morning

An all-march morning? That’s the fact, Jack!

Marches for band. Symphonic marches. Light music marches. Marches for piano. Marches for string quartet. Funeral marches. Coronation marches. Circus marches.

I hope you’ll join me this morning on WPRB, as we are seized by March Madness. That’s right, five blessed hours of marches. Fear not, it won’t be all march-or-die, an incessant barrage of three-minute quick marches in 4/4 time. Some of the marches will be embedded in larger works. Some of the works will merely suggest marches.

It’s a beautiful morning for a brisk March. I’ll be banging a ladle against the trash can lid at 6:00. Join me for a good stretch of the legs, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’ll be sounding off – left, left, left, right, left – on Classic Ross Amico.

March 23, 2017
March Madness on WPRB Radio

Can’t… stop… the MADNESS!

Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we’re overtaken by March Madness. We’ll have a full morning of marches. That’s right. It’s so mad a concept, it hardly seems feasible. Yet we will work miracles in an attempt to avoid a rigid playlist of 3-minute pieces in 4/4 time.

I’ve already got sets of marches piling up for two pianos by Beethoven and Schubert, a symphony for band (and marching machine) by Morton Gould, and works in larger forms that incorporate notable march movements by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest composers.

We rise at oh-dark-thirty to begin marching at 6. I hope you’ll join me from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. These boots are made for marching, on Classic Ross Amico.

March 22, 2017
Irish Music & Elgar with Ross Amico on WPRB

Music on Irish themes will be as numerous as the shamrocks of the field, with nary a snake to be found, thanks be to St. Patrick. This morning on WPRB, we’ll have works by Irish composers, composers of Irish descent, and plenty of Irish-for-a-day. I hope you’ll join me for an abundance of reels, whimsy, and sentiment for the Emerald Isle.

At 10:00, I’ll be joined by Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Lyndon-Gee will guest conduct the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium this Sunday at 4 p.m., 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 share a few insights into this weekend’s program, and then surprise us with a selection of his recorded performances. Refreshingly, his musical interests lay well off the beaten path.

Don’t let the Italian surname fool you. My mother’s people came from Ireland. That said, I’ll be needin’ to kiss the blarney stone to get through five hours of music and conversation, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I’ve got dark circles around my half-Irish eyes, on Classic Ross Amico.

March 16, 2017
Lyndon-Gee on WPRB Today! Elgar & Nielsen

Join me at 10:00 this morning on WPRB to hear composer and conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Lyndon-Gee will lead the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium this Sunday at 4 p.m. Philippe Graffin will be the soloist in Sir Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto. The second half of the program will be devoted to Carl Nielsen’s volcanic Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable.”

Lyndon-Gee will offer insights into the concert and then share some surprises from his extensive catalog of recorded music. Until then, we’ve got wall-to-wall works on Irish themes, as we look ahead to St. Patrick’s Day, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

March 16, 2017

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