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Bill & Karrin explore music that reflects what America and nations acrosss the globe strive to attain

Performances by the Swiss pianist and composer Ernst Levy (1895-1981) this Friday (9/27, with the rebroadcast Saturday 9/28)

An eclectic mix of piano music, this Friday (10/4, with the rebroadcast Saturday 10/5)

Members of the Youth Orchestra of Central New Jersey join the PSO for a new work on this concert broadcast Friday (10/11 at 8 pm), which also includes Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Brahms's Symphony No. 4.

A Tempo Saturday (7/26 at 7 pm) features a roundtable discussion with the four participants of this year's New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute.

We have the first of three different Manons on this week’s Sunday Opera (7/27 3:00 p.m.) with Daniel Auber’s 1884 treatment of Abbe Prevost’s 1731 novel, “Manon Lescaut.” Auber’s work of the three we’ll be airing (the others by Massenet and Puccini) is probably the loosest adaptation of Prevost, but it still ends tragically for its titular character.

This week’s Dress Circle (6/8 7:00 p.m.) is a return to one of our favorite topics, “Involuntary Musical Imagery” otherwise known as stuck song syndrome, sticky music, and cognitive itch, or, as the Germans call them, orhwurm. Of course, their earworms. Those pesky songs that you love to hate. You hear them, and they stay with you for a very long time afterwards.

We decided to get everyone prepared for summer on this week’s Dress Circle (6/15 7:00 p.m.), since it officially begins on June 20th. To do this, we’ve turned to “summer songs” from thirteen diverse musicals.