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An eclectic selection of piano music this Friday (2/27, rebroadcast Saturday 2/28)

Members of the Philadelphia-based ensemble lead us through the diverse menagerie of instruments on which they perform in this broadcast Monday (3/2 at 8 pm), with an encore Saturday (3/7 at 2 pm).

Join WWFM for a live concert broadcast March 9 at 7 pm at Trinity Church Princeton, 33 Mercer Street. In honor of Bach Month Rob Kapilow and the Sebastian Chamber Players will perform an audience favorite, JS Bach's Double Violin Concerto in d minor.

So much is being said about cross-dressing and drag now that we thought we’d take a look at how musicals have looked at this aspect of theatre on this week’s Dress Circle (4/16 7:00 p.m.). Men portraying women on stage were a major part of Greek and Roman theatre as well as early European theatre mainly because women weren’t allowed to appear on stage. However, once that taboo was overturned, women often portrayed men, especially in operas and British Pantomimes.

Desire versus reality on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/15 3:00 p.m.) as we look to a 1938 work by Bohuslav Martinu that was based on a French surrealist play by Georges Neveux entitled “Juliette, or the Key of Dreams.” “Julietta” is the object of desire of a travelling bookseller, and he travels to the world of dreams to find her, even though he’s never seen her. He’s just heard her singing.

Sounds Choral this week (2/7) welcomes Vinroy D. Brown, Jr. to its panel of hosts.

Minnesota-based composers & husband & wife Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach join the roster of Sounds Choral hosts this week with a program of works that have been important to them as they've built their careers. (2/22).

Ryan Brandau focuses on two works, one inspired bu the other and composed two centuries apart- music of Dietrich Buxtehude & Caroline Shaw.

Matthew Robertson leads his ensemble The Thirteen in performances recorded last year of the setting of the Catholic Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach.