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We're surveying 123 years of musical history this week with March show openings beginning with the 1900 revival of "The Bohemian Girl" by Michael Balfe through the 2023 revival of Jason Robert Brown's "Parade."

We're beginning a series of programs looking at musicals written expressly for television. This week, our playlist includes five shows, two written in 1957, two written in 1958, and one in 1967. Our composing teams include Jule Styne, Leo Robin, Richard Rodgers, Alec Wilder, William Engvick, and Cole Porter

Piano works inspired by dance.

It's back-to-back-to-back Bach this Sunday (3/19 at 2 pm).

This Friday (3/17 at 8 pm) features the first of the ensemble's concerts curated by Priscilla Herreid, who took over as Artistic Director of Pifarro - The Renaissance Band this season from founders Joan Kimball and Robert Wiemken.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (3/26 at 2 pm) features music from Estonia's "Singing Revolution."

This broadcast Friday (3/24 at 8 pm) pairs music of JS Bach with poetry by Dryden Ensemble oboist and founder Jane McKinley to tell the story of Anna Magadalena Bach, the second wife of JS Bach.

We're continuing our look at musicals written for television with four more - two from 1957 "The Adventures of Marco Polo" which adapted music by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" which used themes by Edvard Grieg, one from 1958, "Little Women" by Richard Adler, and a version of "Pinocchio" entitled "Geppetto" featuring music by Stephen Schwartz.

Our third and final program in this series Looks at television musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Livingston and Evans, Hugh Martin, and more.