Lauren Rico
Classical Music Program HostLauren Rico considers herself very lucky. After all, how many people get paid to listen to beautiful music all day and talk about it?! For more than 20 years she has demystified classical music for her audiences by taking it off a dusty old pedestal and putting it into a modern context. But don’t be fooled by her informal manner! Lauren has an extensive background including a Master’s Degree in French horn (which she wasn’t especially good at) and a long list of broadcasting jobs from across the country (which she was especially good at). She has a passion for producing special programs and even picked up a Gracie Award for her syndicated series, Instrumental Women. When she’s not chatting about the idiosyncrasies of the great composers, she lives on Long Island with her husband, two punky schnauzers and their idiosyncrasies.
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Cesar Franck wrote a lot of music for a lot of different ensemble configurations. That being said, there is only one symphony in the entirety of his…
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Mothers have been making idle threats for centuries…”Your face is going to freeze like that!” “You’ll catch your death of cold!” and “I’m going to tell…
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These days, most folks know Amilcare Ponchielli by one piece, “Dance of the Hours.” But he was so much more than the tune for “Hello Mother, Hello Father”…
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17. It’s a year of driver’s licenses, proms and college applications. But not for Felix Mendelssohn. For him, 17 was a year of career-defining success.…
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It’s been called “an immortal poem in which life and death come face to face." Was it by Whitman? Perhaps Emily Dickinson… or Pablo Neruda? Actually, this…
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Gustav Holst wasn’t just a great composer, he was a great educator. He knew just how to get the best from his students…providing them with music that they…
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When Don Gillis finished up his sixth symphony, he looked at it and thought it was much too lighthearted, much too fun to carry the weighty name of a…