WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

WPRB is a freeform radio station located in Princeton, NJ. Our Fall Membership Drive runs through November 22nd. To support us, please do so at pledge.wprb.com.

Radio Free NJ

Apr 12, 2025 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Music

With MJ

7:03 AM		Smetana String Quartet String Quartet No. 1: I. Adagio con moto Leos Janacek Janacek: String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2, Smetana Quartet Parliament 2014
7:07 AM		Martha Argerich Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le gibet (Live) Martha Argerich Live from the Concertgebouw 2024
7:20 AM		Wolfram Christ, Lorin Maazel & Berlin Philharmonic Harold en Italie, Op. 16: I. Harold aux montagnes (Adagio - Allegro) Hector Berlioz Berlioz: Harold in Italy; Le Carnaval Romain - Overture Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 1985
7:38 AM		Clang Quartet Amazing Disgrace Clang Quartet The Separation of Church & Hate Silber Records 2003
7:38 AM		E. E. Cummings Santa Claus (From "Scene Three") E.E. Cummings E.E. Cummings Reads His Poetry Smultron 2024
7:48 AM		Haku Japanese narration: poetic excerpts from “For Me, The Rays of The Sun” Na Mele A Ka
7:50 AM		K. Curtis Lyle Lemon's Holy Blues The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson
7:59 AM		Steven Jesse Bernstein More Noise Please Prison Sub Pop 1992
8:00 AM		Allen Ginsberg 4 A.M. Blues / New York Blues / New York Youth Call Annunciation (medley) Allen Ginsberg First Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs Folkways Records 1981
8:14 AM		James Joyce Anna Livia Plurabelle (From Finnegan's Wake) Irish Poets and Writers, Historic Readings and Commentary, Vol. 2 Soundmark 2014
8:19 AM		Luciano Berio Laborintus 2: Deuxieme Partie Laborintus 2 harmonica mundi 1987
8:39 AM		T.S. Eliot Ash Wednesday T.S.ELIOT The Waste Land (And other T.S.Eliot Works) Trunk Records 2016
8:43 AM		Orchestre de l'Opera Bastille, Myun-Whun Chung IV. Prière Du Christ Montant Vers Son Père (Extrêmement Lent, Ému Et Solennel) Olivier Messiaen Saint-Saëns, Messiaen, Orchestre De L'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung – Symphonie No. 3 Avec Orgue = “Organ” Symphony - L' Ascension Deutsche Grammophon 1993
8:58 AM		Plácido Domingo, Bo Skovhus, Esa-Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic Das Lied Von Der Erde: V. Der Trunkene Im Frühling Gustav Mahler Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde Sony Classical 2000

Chat is archived.

Good morning, MJ!

Good morning, Rob! How's it going this morning?

It's going ok. I woke up pretty late (for me) this morning. We're sitting here enjoying your show, probably going out soon enough to look for birds

How are you this morning?

Ah, what kinds of birds are y'all hoping to spot today?

I'm doing well, a little sleep-deprived, but it's always great to be in the studio. I think I'm gonna get a haircut after this

Birds: Dunno. I still have to finish coffee and stuff. At this point, maybe wait for someone else to find something groovy that was grounded by the rainstorms

Haircuts are good, sleep deprivation isn't

The Cummings/Clang matchup was excellent!

I've never thought about where birds go on rainy days? Do they stay in the trees the way people stay indoors?

Glad you liked Cummings/Clang! My thought was that the cadence of Cummings's voice lines up unexpectedly well with the bass drum

Cool that you noticed that

I absolutely love all the little sounds in this track

Rain/birds -- depends on the birds and the volume of rain. Some ducks will stay out in the middle of the lake or river during a heavy rain. Other water birds might hide in the reeds or under a bush. Songbirds would definitely shelter in/under bushes & trees

It makes me very jealous that ducks are just waterproof, that's so cool

🦆 🌧️ ☺️

btw I just made a donation

Morning yall! Does anyone know what time they'll be at PREX today?

10 AM - 3 PM! Come through!!

Gmorning MJ! Fun show today :)

Morning, Aen! Thanks as always for tuning in :)

TAndy: me too, always so much to notice with Berio! For some reason, to me his music feels entirely at home over radio waves

We enjoyed your show this morning, MJ. Have a great rest of Saturday and weekend!

Thanks, Rob! You too, and thanks so much for the donation.