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In the past, we’ve “marched” into March, but we’ve decided to “Parade into March” on this week’s Dress Circle (3/9 7:00 p.m.) with songs from a variety of musicals from stage and screen. We’ve done a program of parades before, but this time, the titles must contain the word “parade.”

The theme for this week’s Dress Circle (3/16 7:00 p.m.) came about as we were researching ideas for future programs. We noticed that almost all musicals feature songs where someone is leaving, telling someone else to leave, hinting someone else should leave, or is caught between leaving and staying. We came up with a list long enough to do several programs, so we thought we’d start this week with songs “Saying Goodbye or Not.”

A Tempo (1/18) features a conversation with music educator Alice Hammel about teaching music to students with special needs.

The orchestras and choirs of PHS perform in this broadcast of their Winter Concert Monday (1/27) at 8 pm, with an encore broadcast Saturday (2/1) at 2 pm.

Bill & Karrin try to take a bit of the chill out of the air with music celebrating this Season

The Philadelphia-based Baroque Orchestra's smaller ensemble takes the stage on this broadcast Monday (1/20)

A Tempo this Saturday (1/25 at 2 pm) features a conversation with cast and creative team members of Opera Philadelphia's upcoming production of the opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, about the opera, its composer and reclaiming their place in musical history.

We’re turning to another often-overlooked composer on this week’s Sunday Opera (2/2 3:00 p.m.). It’s Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and the only verismo opera he wrote in his catalogue of approximately fifteen: “I gioielli della Madonna” (“The Jewels of the Madonna”). It caused quite a stir after it premiered in 1911 (in Berlin as “Der Schmuck der Madonna”) because of its themes implying criticism of the Catholic Church and love between a brother and his adopted sister.

A Tempo this Saturday (2/1 at 7 pm) features conversations about the world premiere of an opera by the 19th-century New Orleans-born Black composer Edmond Dédé, and McCarter Theatre's production of Here There are Blueberries, which examines choices and complicity during the Holocaust.