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An 85th birthday celebration this Friday (3/6, rebroadcast Saturday 3/7)

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.

Members of the Philadelphia-based ensemble lead us through the diverse menagerie of instruments on which they perform in this broadcast Monday (3/2 at 8 pm), with an encore Saturday (3/7 at 2 pm).

Join WWFM for a live concert broadcast March 9 at 7 pm at Trinity Church Princeton, 33 Mercer Street. In honor of Bach Month Rob Kapilow and the Sebastian Chamber Players will perform an audience favorite, JS Bach's Double Violin Concerto in d minor.

Host Rob Kapilow turns his focus to Osvaldo Golijov's The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind on this broadcast Monday (3/23 at 8 pm).

Enjoy this broadcast Friday (4/3) at the special time of 7 pm of the Choir's Spring Concert this past Palm Sunday.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (3/29 at 2 pm) features a variety of settings of this Latin text.