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

A Tempo features interviews with participants of a multidisciplinary project celebrating both the American semiquincentennial and Interlochen's upcoming 100th anniversary, which includes a concert tour stop in Philadelphia March 13.

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.

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.

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

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

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).

A Tempo this week (3/14) explores the theme of next performance in Princeton University Concerts' Music and Healing Series.

Dolce Suono performs a selection of the ensemble's commissions over its nearly 20-year history on this concert broadcast Monday (9/16 at 8 pm).