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Autumn Music Celebration on WPRB This Thursday

This is a textbook example of grasping for low-hanging fruit – or perhaps radiant leaves would be more appropriate. Be that as it may, who doesn’t love autumn? The combination of crisp, Jack Frost exhilaration and pie-induced coziness is hard to beat.

I hope you’ll join me this Thursday morning on WPRB as we celebrate the glorious season of autumn. I know, we’re already a month into it, but autumn doesn’t become truly autumn until October is ripe on the vine.

We’ll enjoy seasonal works by Cécile Chaminade, Vernon Duke, Gerald Finzi, Billy Mayerl, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Ottorino Respighi, Tomáš Svoboda, Virgil Thomson, Peter Warlock, and many, many others, as well as non-seasonal works that for some reason hold for me seasonal associations. Also, I would be remiss not to toss in a piece or two by Franz Liszt, one of the great musical minds of the 19th century – and a great person to boot – on the occasion of his 204th birthday anniversary.

I had an eager listener phone in on September 23, the Autumnal Equinox, to request music to celebrate the season. I was sorry to have to say, “Too soon!” Now that the pledge drive is over, we can all drink deep, like Dionysus at Keats’ “cyder press.” Let the rustic dances begin!

Sincere thanks to all of you who did your part last week to support independent radio. (Kenneth Hutchins, you are now the Patron Saint of Classic Ross Amico.) For those of you who weren’t listening or were unable to pledge, remember, you may do so at any time, at wprb.com. You’ll be doing me a personal kindness if you send along a line or two to let them know how much you enjoy the show.

We’ll be offering up a tray full of apples and Spiced Wafers tomorrow morning, from 6 to 11 ET, at WPRB 103.3 FM, or online at wprb.com. It will be more fun than a five-hour leaf fight on Classic Ross Amico.

October 21, 2015
Sunday Morning Opera on WPRB

If you are an opera fan, this is worth checking out and supporting. Sandy is presenting a potpourri of the great singers this morning until 10 ET, at WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com. Call (609) 258-1033 or go to pledge.wprb.com.

SUNDAY MORNING OPERA WITH SANDY

Description:

This program is heard from 5:30-10AM on WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey, 103.3 FM. There is a complete opera each week,and after the opera, if there is time remaining, we celebrate the birthday of a composer or singer. You can also listen online at http://www.wprb.com/

The host and producer is Sandy Steiglitz

Posted on October 16 at 8:01am:

I hope that you will join me for Sunday Morning Opera on October 18th. It’s membership drive time on WPRB. This Sunday morning is our annual membership drive show and we’ll be broadcasting segments devoted to artists that you suggested:Jussi Bjoerling, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Sherrill Milnes, Grace Bumbry, Renata Scotto, Mario Sereni, Hermann Prey, and many others.

Tune in, enjoy, and call with your pledge. A contribution in any amount helps to support WPRB, a unique and diverse outlet that
gives its volunteer hosts complete artistic freedom, and allows me to present a complete, uncut opera every week throughout the year. We’ll have 12 special opera thank-you gifts, first-come first-served, plus a schedule of premiums at various levels. I’ll be looking forward to hearing from you!

The phone number is (609) 258-1033. You can pledge online at pledge.wprb.com. I’ll be starting the program at 5:30 AM ET.
THANKS!!

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October 18, 2015
Support Classic Ross Amico on WPRB #wprb75

Do you like what I’ve been doing at WPRB? Have you enjoyed the music? The guests? The five-hour exercises in thematic excess? Then, please, call in today and help cement my standing there with a strong show of listener support, at 609-258-1033.

Classical Discoveries’ Marvin Rosen will join me from 6 to 11 ET, to beat the drum and cry for your pennies. Hopefully you’ll have some dough left over after your outstanding show of support for Marvin’s show yesterday.

Like Marvin (though on a more modest scale), I’ve got some special “thank you” gifts to sweeten the pot (click on the image below). PLEASE NOTE: Because of the limited quantities of the titles, only those who pledge by telephone will be able to collect these special gifts.

Listen in for music by Aaron Copland, Lou Harrison, Zoltán Kodály, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Steven Mackey, Miklós Rózsa, Florent Schmitt, Marcel Tyberg, and more Reinhold Gliere than you could comb out of your Stalinesque mustache. And to our telephone volunteers: good luck distinguishing E.J. Moeran (the English pastoralist) from Robert Moran (composer of “Game of the Antichrist”)!

This is my first WPRB 103.3 FM pledge drive, and it would be great if we could drum up a few thousand dollars to help validate my existence. Pledge early and often for Classic Ross Amico, at 609-258-103.3 or wprb.com – and thank you!

In addition to the authorized WPRB swag –the 75th anniversary commemorative pin and sticker set ($15), the t-shirt ($45), the lunch box and history booklet ($103.30), the retro bag ($250), a grab at immortality (and our eternal gratitude) through having your named inscribed on a station wall plaque ($500), and the anniversary banquet reservation ($1000) – consider picking up one of the following tasties for the low, low price of $45 dollars:

BUILT FOR BUFFALO – World premiere concertos by Aguila, Hagen and Ewazen (SIGNED BY JOANN FALLETTA), BEAU FLUEVE RECORDS 610708-094951

COPLAND, AARON – CELLULOID COPLAND, TELARC 80583

DEBUSSY, CLAUDE – THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (with Edgar Allan Poe-inspired music by Andre Caplet & Florent Schmitt), EMI 47921

FLEISHER, LEON – ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, BRIDGE 9429

GLIERE, REINHOLD – MACAL CONDUCTS GLIERE (Symphony No. 2 & “The Red Poppy,” w/the New Jersey Symphony), DELOS 3178

GLIERE, REINHOLD – Symphony No. 3 “Ilya Muromets” (SIGNED BY JOANN FALLETTA), NAXOS 8.573161

HARRISON, LOU – A PORTRAIT, ARGO 455 590-2

KODALY, ZOLTAN – SUMMER EVENING: WORKS BY ZOLTAN KODALY AND JOSEF SUK, DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 447 109-2

KORNGOLD, ERICH WOLFGANG – THE SEA HAWK: PREVIN CONDUCTS KORNGOLD, DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 471 347-2

MACKEY, STEVEN – AMERICAN GRACE, CANARY CLASSICS 11

MORAN, ROBERT – GAME OF THE ANTICHRIST (SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER), INNOVA 251

MOERAN, E.J. – Cello Concerto (SIGNED BY JOANN FALLETTA), NAXOS 8.573034

ROZSA, MIKLOS – CONCERTOS FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO, TELARC 80518

TYBERG, MARCEL – Symphony No. 2 (SIGNED BY JOANN FALLETTA), NAXOS 8.572822

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October 15, 2015
Support Ross Amico’s WPRB Show Now! #wprb75

A call out to the Classic Ross Amico Cavalry!

For all of you who follow me here on Facebook and delight in my radio programs, today is the one and only opportunity for you to support my Thursday morning show at WPRB 103.3 FM or wprb.com. I’m here until 11:00 this morning. I hope you’ll call before then to make a pledge. Pick up a nice “thank you” gift, as a token of my appreciation, for only $45. See my earlier morning Facebook post for details. Call 609-258-1033. Hope to hear from you! Thanks!

#wprb75

October 15, 2015
Support WPRB Classical Discoveries Pledge Drive #WPRB75

Would you trust these men with your music? Classic Ross Amico, on the phones and on the air, with Classical Discoveries’ Marvin Rosen, until 11 a.m. ET. Make your pledges in support of the new and unusual in “classical music” at 609-258-1033 or at wprb.com.

This is the one chance this year for you to support Classical Discoveries and WPRB. The station holds but a single, week-long pledge drive per year. That’s it. I’m sure if you wanted to send the station a check at some point, they won’t turn it away, but if you want to be counted toward the ambitious goal of $75,000 to celebrate WPRB’s 75th year, you need to act this week.

Take a look at these lipsmacking “thank you” gifts Marvin has assembled for you. These will be on offer only until 11, at WPRB 103.3 FM. All pledges are greatly appreciated, but because of the limited quantities of the titles, only those who pledge by telephone will be able to collect these special gifts.

http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/index_10_14_2015_temporary_file.html#CDs

Then I hope you’ll tune in tomorrow, when we’ll do it again, in support of Classic Ross Amico, with a fresh batch of “thank you” gifts supplied by me. Better start fishing the change out of your sofas. We sincerely appreciate your support at Classical Discoveries, Classic Ross Amico, and WPRB.

Make your pledges at 609-258-1033, or at wprb.com – and thank you!

#WPRB75

October 14, 2015

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