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This is the first of two programs that look at musicals that played in London's West End but never made the transfer to Broadway although they may have toured or played outside of New York in the United States. The musicals this week include "Doctor Dolittle," "Copacabana," "Valmouth," and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Bill McGlaughlin & Karrin Allyson continue their Summer Dance series with the second volume "And the Band Played On"...see you at the bandstand!

Exploring memorable collaborations.

This program looks at five musicals for which Stephen Sondheim only contributed musicals including the three complete musicals: "West Side Story," "Gypsy," and "Do I Hear a Waltz?" and additional lyrics for "Candide" and "The Mad Show."

In an All-American Sunday Opera, we'll feature Ricky Ian Gordon's 2007 operatic version of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" followed by Samuel Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915 and Aaron Copland's Short Symphony No. 2.

Three singers we need to here more of!

Dolce Suono Ensemble welcomes soprano Sarah Shafer for a performance of works by American women composers including Jennifer Higdon, Amy Beach and Ruth Crawford Seeger this Friday (8/12).

This is our second program looking at West End musicals that never made it to Broadway.

Four Baroque operas: two from Michel-Richard de Lalande and two from Marc-Antoine Charpentier performed by casts from the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF)

Modest Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” is better known in its versions by Rimsky-Korsakov (1896 & 1908) and the final version (for now) by Dmitriy Shostakovich (1940), but this week’s version is that of the original piece finished by Mussorgsky in 1869 which is closest to the drama by Pushkin, contains recitatives, a few scenes that have been highly altered, and is performed in one act.