PSO Soundtracks
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra welcomes radio host and music journalist Classic Ross Amico for a fun and informative talk on music and film. He will share his personal interactions with some of his favorite film scores and observations on the evolution of movie music from the early days of silent film to the 21st century. An audience Q&A will immediately follow the talk.
Soundtracks is presented as a PSO BRAVO! community outreach program in partnership with Princeton Public Library. The series is sponsored in the 2024-25 season by AffinIT.
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Ross Amico has been sharing his love of classical music and film music for nearly 40 years. After working in community radio while an undergraduate at Temple, he joined WWFM The Classical Network, where he hosted live air shifts and produced recorded concerts for the next 25 years. He has also hosted regular shows on WPRB Princeton and WRTI Philadelphia. He continues to explore film music on Picture Perfect and examines seldom-heard composers and recordings on The Lost Chord. These long-running shows air in syndication along with his light music program, added in 2023, Sweetness and Light. As a writer, he has promoted the local and regional arts scene through articles and reviews for The Times of Trenton and U.S. 1. He has interviewed, among others, JoAnn Falletta, Leon Fleisher, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Marc-André Hamelin, Sharon Isbin, Peter Schickele, Caroline Shaw, Chris Thile, Dawn Upshaw, Pinchas Zukerman, and Christopher Walken. A record collector from the age of 10, Ross credits his fascination with film with having introduced him to the symphony orchestra.
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Location
Princeton Public Library
2nd Floor "Newsroom"
65 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ
