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Fairy Tale Music with Ross Amico

Did you ever have one of those mornings? You dream of being awakened by a kiss, but instead you get a four-legged friend panting (or worse) for his or her breakfast.

This morning, we turn our backs on reality to immerse ourselves in the fantasy worlds of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Aesop and others.

Okay, so maybe sometimes things turn out even worse in fairy tales. But the subjects invariably offer a blank canvas for the imaginative flights of some of the world’s great composers.

I hope you’ll join me this morning for music by Havergal Brian, Daniel Dorff, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, William Hurlstone, Nikolai Medtner, Robert McBride, Robert Moran, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Ernst Toch, Siegfried Wagner, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alexander Zemlinsky, and others of their ilk.

Musical subjects will include Pinocchio, Snow White, Old King Cole, The Little Mermaid, Three Blind Mice, and Beauty and the Beast.

It all takes place from 6 to 11 a.m. ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wrpb.com. Keep the ogres at bay – and the earbuds in – with Classic Ross Amico.

August 6, 2015
Fairy Tale Music on WPRB This Week

Once upon a time (yesterday), I decided it might be fun to do a show of fairy tale music and music inspired by nursery rhymes. This is the kind of thing I often did for Mother’s Day, back when I had my regular weekend air shifts. But a lazy August morning seems as good a time as any to spend with the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault and others.

To this end, we’ll hear music by Havergal Brian, Daniel Dorff, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, William Hurlstone, Nikolai Medtner, Robert McBride, Robert Moran, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Ernst Toch, Siegfried Wagner, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Alexander Zemlinsky (or variations thereof).

Musical subjects will include Pinocchio, Snow White, Old King Cole, The Little Mermaid, Three Blind Mice, and Beauty and the Beast.

Fall under the enchantment tomorrow from 6 to 11 a.m. ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com. Awake to a musical kiss from Classic Ross Amico.

August 5, 2015
Ross Amico’s Summer Music Escape & So Percussion

Nocturnes, gardens, getaways and plenty of water – that’s Classic Ross Amico’s prescription for summer survival this week.

Perhaps you are fond of summer. Or perhaps, like me, you live in a third-floor walk-up in the middle of a paved-over hell-hole, in which case you probably harbor more ambivalent feelings. To be fair, yesterday was actually quite lovely.

Either way, I hope you’ll join me this morning for music related in some way to summer and summery diversions. We’ll have vacation music, works about leisurely pursuits, water music, and aural evocations of perfumed breezes wafting through gently swaying greenery.

Members of So Percussion will drop by in the 8:00 hour to talk a bit about their own positive contribution to the season, the So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI), now in progress at locations in and around Princeton University. The two week program for college-age percussionists and composers is chock-full of free concerts, some of them in very public places, such as Princeton Record Exchange, Small World Coffee, and Albert Hinds Plaza. If you haven’t looked into it, you can find more information and the complete schedule here:

http://sopercussion.com/sosiconcerts

SoSI runs through August 1.

It’s only two months until autumn. Think cool thoughts and stay hydrated with Classic Ross Amico. I’ll be poring over the Farmer’s Almanac from 6 to 11 a.m. ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com.

PHOTO: No one captures the creepy agonies and ecstasies of summer quite like Edvard Munch

July 23, 2015
Summer Music on WPRB with So Percussion

I suppose there’s no point in denying it after this week, so I’m going to jump right in. This Thursday morning on WPRB, it’s all music related in some way to summer and summery diversions. There will be music inspired by this, my most-hated season, as well as works about water, gardens and getaways.

Members of So Percussion will drop by in the 8:00 hour to knock some sense into me and to talk a bit about the So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI), now in progress at locations in and around Princeton University. The two week program for college-age percussionists and composers is chock-full of free concerts, some of them in very public places, such as Princeton Record Exchange, Small World Coffee, and Albert Hinds Plaza. If you haven’t looked into it, you can find more information and a complete schedule here:

http://sopercussion.com/sosiconcerts

SoSI runs through August 1.

I hope you’ll slather yourself with lotion, put on some shades, and join me in my air conditioned, subterranean bunker this week, as we celebrate summer, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com.

Keep it cool with Classic Ross Amico.

July 22, 2015
JoAnn Falletta’s Musical Morning on WPRB

It’s a Falletta Fest! All recordings of works conducted and/or played by JoAnn Falletta this morning.

Falletta is in Princeton with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for this year’s Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, five days of intensive compositional evaluations and consultations, master classes and career-building opportunities, which will culminate in a live concert performance of participating composers’ works. The concert, including four world premieres and a piece by Institute director Steven Mackey, will take place tonight at Richardson Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

In the meantime, composers you can expect to hear on this morning’s program will include Miguel del Águila, Romeo Cascarino, Eric Ewazen, Kenneth Fuchs, Gustav Holst, E.J. Moeran, Jerome Moross, Behzad Ranjbaran, and Marcel Tyberg, among others, performed by orchestras with which Falletta has had fruitful associations, including the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Women’s Philharmonic.

Falletta herself will drop by around 9:00 to talk about the institute and some of her other projects. She’s always very busy, with plenty of concerts, festivals and recordings in the pipeline.

I hope you’ll join me, this morning from 6 to 11 a.m. ET, for some entrancing musical rarities, at WPRB 103.3 FM or online at wprb.com.

July 16, 2015

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