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Shana Tova Music on WPRB Today

Shana tova!

This morning on WPRB, we’ll start the day with music evocative of the Jewish High Holidays, including works inspired by the shofar (or ram’s horn, sounded at the opening and close of the season), the Kol Nidre (the solemn prayer sung at the beginning of Yom Kippur services), the synagogue, and Jewish folk traditions.

Featured composers will include Aaron Minsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Lukas Foss, Ernest Bloch, Maurice Ravel, Matthew H. Fields, Louis Gesensway, Paul Ben-Haim, Max Bruch, Arnold Schoenberg, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Darius Milhaud, David Stock, John McCabe, Herman Berlinski, Paul Schoenfield, and John Duffy.

Lox to enjoy this morning, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. If you knead anything, just give us a “challah,” on Classic Ross Amico.

October 6, 2016
High Holy Days Music on WPRB

Coming up in the next hour will be “The Chagall Windows,” English composer John McCabe’s luminous, strange and beautiful impressions of the stained glass tableaux located at the synagogue of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

We’ll also hear Darius Milhaud’s studies for string quartet on themes from the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgies, as he knew them in his native Provence, and David Stock’s “Yizkor.”

It’s all music by Jewish composers or on Jewish themes for the High Holy Days this morning until 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

October 6, 2016
Jewish High Holy Days Music on WPRB

Already three days into the Jewish New Year, and all I can think to say is, “Shofar, so good.” If a blast on the ram’s horn sends you into ecstasies, have I got a show for you!

Tomorrow morning on WPRB, there will be shofars aplenty, as we listen to music by Jewish composers and/or on Jewish themes, in honor of the High Holy Days.

There will be works by composers such as Paul Ben-Haim, Herman Berlinski, Ernest Bloch, John Duffy, Lukas Foss, Louis Gesensway, John McCabe, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Schoenfield, David Stock and Jacob Weinberg.

We’ll also uphold an annual WPRB tradition, initiated by Teri Noel Towe, of listening to Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei.”

A number of these composers aren’t even Jewish – and a few of the pieces aren’t particularly “Jewish” sounding – but all of them pay tribute to the creativity and soulfulness of the Jewish experience.

That’s music for the Days of Awe – the period from Rosh Hashanah (the New Year) through Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) – tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. The playlist will be totally Awesome, on Classic Ross Amico.

October 5, 2016
Oktoberfest Meets Dionysus Bavarian Drinking Songs

Each year, at the end of September, the city of Munich is overrun with lederhosen and Dirndl blouses, as beer-lovers from all over the world convene to celebrate Oktoberfest. At the same time, the mythological figure of Bacchus, the god of wine (Dionysus to the Greeks), begins to stir with the ripening of the grape.

Join me this morning as we observe this cosmic convergence of beer and wine, with alcohol-drenched salutes to Munich and divine revelry, including variations on drinking songs, musical toasts to Bavaria, and works written by native composers Werner Egk, Carl Orff and Richard Strauss.

Get ready to hoist a few, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. The hills are alive with polkas and pretzels, on Classic Ross Amico.

September 29, 2016
Bavarian Alps with Strauss on WPRB

We leave behind the commotion of the Munich beer halls for an excursion in the Bavarian Alps, courtesy of Richard Strauss. It’s Strauss’ “An Alpine Symphony,” basically for the next hour, as we celebrate Oktoberfest until 11:00 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

September 29, 2016

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