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WCPE “Preview!” Features Mario Lombardo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (November 13, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program “Preview!” will feature an interview with Composer Mario Lombardo. The interview can be heard during the station’s Sunday, November 16, 2008 program that airs from 6-9 p.m.

Mr. Lombardo will be interviewed by “Preview!” host Deana Vassar. They will discuss his early composition influences such as Gershwin and Rachmaninov. Also included in the interview is Lombardo’s love affair with the oboe, an instrument he doesn’t even play. Featured will be his Concerto for Oboe in One Movement from the CD "L'Amore Italiano", with soloist Andrea Ridilla.

“Lombardo is a contemporary classical composer who evokes the spirit of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov,” says Vassar. “He is simply a master of melody and romance.”

“My other works for oboe include a Rhapsody for Oboe and Orchestra, a work for oboe and chamber entitled ‘Escapades’ and a recent world premiere on Oct. 26, 2008 of Dance Suite for Oboe and Strings,” says Lombardo. “Oboist Oscar Petty premiered all of these concert oboe works. My aim is to continue writing music in the tradition of the great Romantic composers-that is, to bring beauty and harmony into a world filled with chaos.”

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About Mario Lombardo:

Mario Lombardo, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, began the study of piano at the age of nine, and began composing at sixteen. He graduated with honors from Seton Hall University with a Masters Degree in English, where he also studied piano, harmony, theory, and composition with Professor Walter Cohrssen. He continued his musical education at Columbia University Graduate School. Upon completion of these studies, he accepted a position as assistant professor of English at Seton Hall, which he held for eight years. Mario Lombardo is a composer of more than 200 songs, five musicals, and many works for piano, chorus, concert band, and orchestra. His music has been performed by the orchestras of Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Cincinnati, New Jersey, and numerous other orchestras in the United States and Europe.

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