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A Tempo this Saturday (6/7 at 7 pm) explores the facets of Trenton-based The Lotus Project's 'Remembrance and Resilience' Festival, which traces the experiences of Holocaust survivors and today's immigrants and refugees through art and music.

We’re turning to another opera that’s been forgotten although it was quite popular when it premiered in 1920 on this week’s Sunday Opera (6/15 3:00 p.m.), and as a bonus, it’s written in the Basque idiom. It’s Spanish composer Jesus Guridi’s “Amaya.” Guridi (1886 – 1961) played an important role as a Spanish / Basque composer who wrote operas and zarzuelas as well as orchestral, piano, choral, and organ works.

The artistry of pianist Mindru Katz, this Friday (6/6, rebroadcast Saturday 6/7)

Music deserving wider recognition, this Friday (6/13, rebroadcast Saturday 6/14)

Bill & Karrin turn this wonderful old phrase into wonderful musical delights

A Tempo checks out Make Music Day, a world-wide celebration of music held annually to coincide with the Summer Solstice.

Rare piano recordings this Friday (6/20, rebroadcast Saturday 6/21)

Umberto Giordano wrote 18 operas in all, but only two of them are produced with any regularity: “Fedora” and “Andrea Chenier.” On this week’s Sunday Opera (6/22 3:00 p.m.), we’ll be looking at two of his other operas that, although not unknown, aren’t produced nearly as often, and this came about after a conversation with one of our long-time listeners in Bethlehem, PA. Those operas are “La cena delle beffe” (“The Jester’s Supper”) and “Madame Sans-Gene. (“Madame Carefree”).