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Sometimes, it seems like everything is “for the birds,” so we thought we’d turn to the birds ourselves on this week’s Dress Circle (7/13 7:00 p.m.). Once again, we had a great deal of fun mining our catalogue of musicals to bring you a variety of real, allegorical, and metaphysical birds from musicals like “Bloomer Girl,” “Lost in the Stars,” “Magdalena,” “The Spitfire Grill,” “Lady Be Good,” and “Sweeney Todd” along with several others with which you may or may not be familiar.

With everything going on, we’re looking everywhere we can to find some happiness, and, of course, we turned to the musicals, and on this week’s Dress Circle (7/20 7:00 p.m.), we’ve compiled a playlist of some of the songs that make us happy.

The second half of this program is an encore broadcast of Cadenza recorded with the late Maestro Norrington back in 2007

The Bergamot Quartet and Newman & Oltman Guitar duo present new music, including Raritan River Music commissions, on this program Monday (7/21 at 8 pm).

Marimbaist Greg Giannascoli and other percussionists take the stage in this last concert broadcast Monday (7/28) of this year's festival.

More highlights from the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, this Friday (8/1, rebroadcast Saturday 8/2)

Our second look at the story of Manon Lescaut continues from the Teatro Regio on this week’s Sunday Opera (8/3 3:00 p.m.) with Massanet’s treatment of the story by Antoine Prevost. In this one, Manon doesn’t die in the wilderness or desert of Louisiana, she dies of exhaustion on the road to Le Havre to be deported.

Tempesta di Mare takes the stage in this first of four broadcasts from this year's festival Monday (7/7) at 8 pm.

In this second concert broadcast from the 2025 Raritan River Music Festival Monday (7/14), David Korevaar performs Beethoven (with an encore broadcast Saturday 7/19 at 2 pm)