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November Introspection Music on WPRB

Between the weather and the election, November is off to a very strange start. I am sure I am not alone in feeling rather subdued this week. It seems only appropriate, then, that tomorrow morning on WPRB, the focus will be on intimacy, introspection and solace. We’ll enjoy music for various chamber combinations – string quartets, woodwind quintets, that sort of thing – so as not to agitate or jangle too many nerves.

It will be a morning of genuine concord, from 6 to 11 EST, at WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. You’ll find me relaxing with a scotch in the bath, on Classic Ross Amico.

November 10, 2016
Chamber Music Intimate Conversations

Chamber music. Intimate conversation between friends.

Join me for a morning of civilized discourse, as we enjoy a string quartet by Niels Wilhelm Gade, a clarinet sonata by Max Reger, a quintet for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp by Jean Cras, a piano quintet by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, a quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano by Peter Schickele, a duet for two cellos by Friedrich August Kummer, a double sextet by Steve Reich, and more.

Violinist Vladimir Dyo and Clipper Erickson, piano, will join me in the 10:00 hour. They’ll tell us a little bit about a chamber concert they’ll be performing at 1867 Sanctuary at Ewing this Monday at 8 p.m, with colleagues Allen Krantz, guitar, and Ovidiu Marinescu, cello. The program will include works by Krantz, Astor Piazzolla, Gaspar Cassado, Frederic Chopin, Mauro Giuliani, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

The election is over. Time to conduct ourselves with dignity, if only for a few hours, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Let’s make beautiful music together, on Classic Ross Amico.

November 10, 2016
Autumn Music with Clipper Erickson on WPRB

Autumn is in the air!

Well, maybe not, but it will certainly be ON the air, this morning on WPRB, as we drag Jack Frost kicking and screaming back from his vacation in the Bahamas, with a playlist evocative of changing, falling, and/or decaying leaves. Sure, it’s supposed to hit 75 degrees, but why deprive ourselves of the bittersweet pleasures of crisp apples, November woods, and wild geese?

Clipper Erickson, piano, will swing by the studio around 9:00 to talk about his upcoming concert, which will take place at Salem United Church of Christ in Doylestown, on Sunday at 3 p.m. The program will include Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Clipper, who is on the faculties of Westminster Conservatory of Music and Temple University, is hot off a recital at the Steinway Salon at New York’s Symphony Space. He is always up to something (he’ll be appearing on another concert at 1867 Sanctuary at Ewing in a little over a week), so I’m sure there will be lots to talk about and plenty of music to enjoy.

Bundle up and grab a rake; we disdain all leaf-blowers, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We make like a tree and leave, on Classic Ross Amico.

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November 3, 2016
70 Degree November Autumn Music on WPRB

What’s the deal with 70 degree November? They want us to change our clocks; can’t we just reset the calendar? But I guess that’s been tried a couple of times. At least the trees seem to understand the time of year.

Tomorrow morning on WPRB, we will be conjuring an idealized autumn, with music reflective of the season’s two faces – on the one hand, the riotous colors of changing leaves, with rowdy kids pumped up on mad cider and candy corn; on the other, steely skies and denuded trees.

Jack Frost will be out with his paint kit, even as temperatures are slated to spike into the mid-70s. The geese will be hightailing it south for the winter, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. It’s always autumn in our hearts, on Classic Ross Amico.

November 2, 2016
Spooky Halloween Music on WPRB

Now that you’ve pledged your support to all – or at least one – of my radio stations (and I hope you have), it’s time to sit back and enjoy some music.

At the height of this most glorious season comes the greatest of holidays – Hallowe’en! Hallowe’en has always been my favorite. I love it so, I spell it with an apostrophe, just to extend the pleasure.

This Thursday morning on WPRB, we’ll get a leg up on the mischief and the incipient tooth decay, with a blend of the chillies and the sillies. We’ll hear spooky works like André Caplet’s “Conte fantastique” (after Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”), Henry Cowell’s “The Banshee,” and George Crumb’s “A Haunted Landscape,” alongside such light-hearted treats as Kurt Schwertsik’s “Dracula’s House-and-Court Music,” Frederic Curzon’s “Dance of an Ostracised Imp,” and Billy Mayerl’s “Bats in the Belfry.” In addition, Christopher Lee will give a virtuoso performance, assuming all the roles, in Igor Stravinsky’s take on the Faust legend, “The Soldier’s Tale.”

The best preventative for having your trees draped with toilet paper is to join me tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com. We’ll be cutting holes in our parents’ bed sheets and handing out dimes to make the kids sad, on Classic Ross Amico.

October 27, 2016

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