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Autumn Music on WPRB & Bravura’s Season

Autumn arrives this morning at 10:21 EDT. But with temperatures on the East Coast in the mid-upper 80s, there will be no hot cider or diving into leaf piles quite yet.

Instead, I hope you will join me in celebrating ALL of the seasons, with musical journeys around the year by composers of the likes of Morton Gould, Edward German, Lars-Erik Larssson, Albert Roussel, and Gian Francesco Malipiero.

Speaking of the seasons, Chiu-Tze Lin, music director of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, will drop by around 9:00 to talk about their upcoming season, which will begin at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro on Sunday night. The concert, titled “Heroic Masterworks,” will feature music by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky.

The years will fly by this morning, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’re always very well-seasoned, on Classic Ross Amico.

September 22, 2016
Autumn Arrives (Sort Of) on WPRB

Autumn begins here on the East Coast at 10:21 tomorrow morning. The only thing is, somebody forgot to tell the weather.

Since it’s supposed to be in the mid-to-upper 80s until the weekend, and since the leaves have scarcely even started to change, I figured I’d hold off on a no-holds-barred celebration of the season, if you don’t mind, for perhaps a month.

That said, we can’t just let the equinox squeak by without some notice. Therefore, tomorrow morning on WPRB, I will honor my favorite season surreptitiously, careful also to praise its deserving brothers and sisters.

To this end, I’ll be playing complete cycles of musical evocations of ALL the seasons – spring, summer, fall, and winter – by composers such as Edward German, Albert Roussel, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Lars-Erik Larsson, and Morton Gould, among others.

Come prepared with your all-weather gear, from 6 to 11 EDT, to WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. To everything there is a season, on Classic Ross Amico.

September 21, 2016
Jazz Meets Classics on WPRB

Woody Herman plays Stravinsky. Benny Goodman plays Bartók. Wynton Marsalis plays Jolivet. Arturo Sandoval plays Arutiunian. Keith Jarrett plays Barber. Jazz artists perform the classics this morning on WPRB, with a few examples of “Third Stream” (Gunther Schuller’s term for a synthesis of classical and jazz) tossed in for good measure.

As an added bonus, Marc Uys, executive director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, will stop by around 9:00 to talk about a special concert being held tonight at 8 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. Violinist Daniel Rowland will appear as soloist and conductor in Astor Piazzolla’s “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” which will be interleaved with the concertos of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” Rowland has performed the program many times and has even made a very fine recording of it (from which we will sample).

Otherwise, hepcats put on the dog this morning, as jazz artists perform the classics, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’re having ourselves a classical clambake, on Classic Ross Amico.

PHOTO: (left to right) Béla Bartók, Joseph Szigeti and Benny Goodman

September 15, 2016
Princeton Symphony Concert Tonight

In just a few minutes, I’ll be joined by Marc Uys, executive director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, who will drop by the studio around 9:00 to tell us about a special concert that will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium tonight at 8 p.m.

Violinist Daniel Rowland will be soloist in and conductor of Astor Piazzolla’s “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” which will be interleaved with the concertos of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” Rowland has performed the program many times and has even made a very fine recording of it (from which we will sample). Then we’ll hear Piazzolla himself performing some of his own music on the bandoneon.

Also yet to come this morning, Benny Goodman plays Bartok and Keith Jarrett plays Barber, with an early work by famed film composer John Williams written for Stan Kenton, “Prelude and Fugue,” coming up in just a few minutes.

It’s classical music played by jazz artists, with perhaps just a hint of “Third Stream,” until 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM at wprb.com.

September 15, 2016
Jazz Meets Classical on WPRB

Do classical musicians sound too literal when playing jazz? Do jazz musicians sound stiff when interpreting classical? It is my hope that when you tune in tomorrow morning to WPRB you’ll put all such concerns aside. This will be no ordinary crossover program. Let’s face it; there are a lot of really awful crossover albums.

Rather, the playlist will be made up almost exclusively of straight classical music (with perhaps one or two examples of “Third Stream”), interpreted by the great jazz masters, including Paquito D’Rivera, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Keith Jarrett, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, and Arturo Sandoval.

We’ll also hear from genre-defying performers who kept at least one foot in jazz, such as Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin, and Astor Piazzolla.

Speaking of Piazzolla, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra will present a special concert of “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” interleaved with Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” tomorrow night at 8 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. The violinist and conductor will be Daniel Rowland, who has performed the program many times and has even made a very fine recording of it.

The PSO’s executive director, Marc Uys, will drop by the studio tomorrow morning around 9:00 to tell us about the journey of Piazzolla’s work from bandoneon to violin. He’ll also tell us about some of the other highlights of the PSO season.

The remainder of the show will be as described. The beatniks meet the longhairs, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’ll be dixie fried and slated for crashville, daddy-o. Focus your audio, on Classic Ross Amico.

September 14, 2016

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