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We’re spanning 131 years of musical history on this week’s Dress Circle (10/5 7:00 p.m.) as we look at a dozen shows that opened in New York this month from a long forgotten 1894 musical to two revivals opening this year.

Although it doesn't happen as much as it once did, hit songs from the musicals do occasionally make the Billboard charts, and we'll be looking at a least a dozen of them on this week's Dress Circle (10/12 7:00 p.m.). We're including three number one hits in Louis Armstrong's version of "Hello, Dolly!", The 5th Dimension's version of "Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In" from "Hair," and "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto."

The Bucks County-based chamber ensemble also performs William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano on this concert broadcast Monday (10/20 at 8 pm).

This concert broadcast Monday (10/13) features the percussion quartet's concert in Princeton last month.

We’re revisiting a theme we presented over a decade ago on this week’s Dress Circle (9/21 7:00 p.m.) mainly because there are many new sources from which we can choose.That theme is International Disney, and we’re looking at sixteen selections from a variety of Disney films in fourteen different languages.

A Tempo kicked off its survey of how the performing arts are preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, beginning with a two-part look at Sing Democracy 250. The project will present concerts by its Together in Hope choir at key U.S. cities and has invited choirs around the country to perform the music it commissioned at concerts of their own.

The second of seven programs devoted to the complete Chopin Mazurkas, this Friday (10/3 at 3 pm, rebroadcast Saturday 10/4 at 6 pm).