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Mozart Tributes WPRB Celebrates a Master

“Mozart! Forgive your assassin! I confess, I killed you!”

Poor Antonio Salieri. Wracked with guilt (at least, according to playwright Peter Shaffer) for having “killed” Mozart.

We’re killing Mozart with kindness this morning on WPRB, as we salute the 18th century master on the eve of his birthday anniversary. However, we won’t hear a single note of Mozart, except perhaps as filtered through the sensibilities of others. It will be a full morning of Mozart tributes, ranging from the composer’s day to our own, as old favorites by Tchaikovsky and Reger exist cheek-by-jowl with works by living composers Calvin Bowman, Jonathan Dove, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Kevin Puts.

It’s a cheeky concept, but you have to admit, it’s a lot more interesting, and certainly a lot more creative, than playing all-Mozart, which will be the case with most classical music stations tomorrow (as I will amply demonstrate when the time comes).

We make the most of Mozart this morning, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I forgo contredanses for contrarianism, on Classic Ross Amico.

At 9:00, I’ll be joined by Jerry Kalstein, president of Boheme Opera NJ. Boheme Opera will be presenting semi-staged performances of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” (a.k.a. the prequel to Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”) at The College of New Jersey, this Sunday at 3 p.m., and at Cherry Hill West High School, on Saturday, February 4, at 7 p.m. Tune in to our interview to find out more, or look online at bohemeopera.com.

January 26, 2017
Youthful Music Britten Copland on WPRB

Youth may be wasted on the young, at least according to George Bernard Shaw, but a skillful composer knows how to make the most of youthful talent.

Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we listen to music written for young musicians, by such composers as Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Zoltán Kodály, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Robert Moran, Carl Orff, and Grace Williams.

We’ll also be visited by representatives of the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, which will perform two concerts this Sunday at Kendall Hall on the campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing, and the Princeton Girlchoir, which will appear at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton on Sunday night.

It will be a veritable fountain of youth tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I may be an old soul, but I’m also nothing if not young at heart, on Classic Ross Amico.

Benjamin Britten and his menagerie, rehearsing the chamber opera “Noye’s Fludde”

January 19, 2017
Youth Music on the Radio This Sunday

O sweet bird of youth!

No, it’s not Tennessee Williams. Rather, it’s a full morning of music written especially for young performers.

We’ll have selections by Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Zoltán Kodály, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, William Mathias, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Robert Moran, Carl Orff, and Grace Williams, among others.

Furthermore, in the 9:00 hour, Larisa Epps will drop by from the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey. YOCJ will present two concerts this Sunday at Kendall Hall on the campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing. She’ll tell us a little bit about the programs and her worthwhile organization. Then at 10:00, we’ll be joined by Hilary Butler of the Princeton Girlchoir, which will appear at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton on Sunday night.

I welcome you into my sandbox, this morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Radio can certainly age you, but the music will keep you young, on Classic Ross Amico.

January 19, 2017
Tropical Heatwave Radio Show on WPRB

We’re having a heat waaaave… a tropical heat wave…

Only days after our first taste of snow, temperatures are poised to rise into the 60s.

This Thursday morning on WPRB, we’ll take our cue from Irving Berlin and ride the wave into the tropics. We’ll have music affiliated in some way or another with Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Brazil – broadly speaking, the Caribbean, the Amazon, and Latin America. Some of it will be in the form of picture postcards by European and (North) American composers; much it will be by artists who hail from equatorial climes.

Join me on my tropical estancia, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We need more cow bell, on Classic Ross Amico.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnJ_8Z5Nb4

January 12, 2017
Tropical Heat Wave Music Escape

So long, Old Man Winter – at least for the time being.

We’ll have an abundance of bananas and bongos this morning, as we travel south to equatorial climes, during what will seem in the Northeastern United States like a veritable heat wave. Too late for Indian Summer and too early for the Groundhog, it nevertheless provides us with some incentive to don our beachcombers and Bermuda shorts, musically speaking. We’ll enjoy a full morning of music evocative of the Caribbean, the Amazon, and Latin America. Some of the works will be by European and (North) American composers; most will be by those native to the regions.

For those of you listening from outside the Northeast, under very different weather conditions, consider yourself snow birds, bound for the tropics.

Join me as I crack coconuts with a machete this morning, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’re having a heat waaave… a tropical heat wave…, on Classic Ross Amico.

January 12, 2017

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