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Host Rob Kapilow this Monday (12/11) looks at the Jewish composers who wrote classic American Christmas songs.

This week's Sunday Opera is featuring Claude Debussy's only opera, 1902's "Pelleas et Melesande." Premiering to wildly mixed responses from audiences and critics alike, it's gone on to be considered by many to be a landmark musical work of the 20th century. This performance features Will Liverman and Sydney Mancasola in the title roles.

A Tempo this Saturday (12/2 at 7 pm) looks ahead to an upcoming program of contemporary piano music based on traditional Byzantine and Jewish chants.

Today's opera is Rameau's second "dance opera" which premiered in 1739. "Les fetes d'Hebe" begins with Cupid helping Hebe escape the machinations of Momus, and they travel to the banks of the Seine to witness three pageants based on Poetry, Music, and Dance. After the opera, we'll hear a performance of the first version of the second act of the opera as well as a ballet written by the 19 year old Vladimir Dukelsky whom Broadway audiences know as Vernon Duke.

Romberg conducts his own music, and Dorothy Kirsten and Gordon Macrae lead the singers in this Sunday's program (12/31 at 8 pm).

We have Haydn's one act opera La Cantarina and Vivaldi arias sung by Cecilia Bartoli this Sunday (1/14) at 8 pm.

Rossen Milanov leads the PSO and Westminster Symphonic Choir in Mozart’s Requiem in a new completion of this famous 'unfinished' masterpiece by American compose Gregory Spears on this broadcast Monday (1/8 at 8 pm).

This week’s broadcast concert features the New Jersey Symphony Monday (1/1) at 8 pm.