This performance by the Lakes Area Music Festival Orchestra includes Mykola Lysenko's Overture to Taras Bulba, Jonathan Cziner's North Long Lake, MN, Mel Bonis' Femmes de légende, II. Salomé, and works by Berlioz and Dukes. Christian Reif conducts.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider leads Poulenc’s Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, featuring organ soloist Cameron Carpenter. The broadcast also includes Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Leonard Rose, Principal Cello of the Philharmonic from 1943 to 1951, performs Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. The program also features Borodin’s Symphony No. 2 and works by Kodály and Dvořák.

Each week Bill explores a different theme in classical music with illuminating commentary and musical examples, over the course of time sampling from all genres and eras of classical music. This week: "Strangers in a Strange Land" - The musical evolution of five mature composers as they started their new lives in America: Russian Igor Stravinsky, Hungarian Bela Bartok, German Kurt Weill, Italian Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Austrian Ernst Toch.