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A Tempo (4/25) features a conversation about the American Repertory Ballet's celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S.

Comparative performances of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Finale; Schubert's Sonata in B-Flat, Scherzo; and "March - Song of the Lark" from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons.

As Westminster Choir College looks ahead to its 100th Anniversary Chapel Service this month, Tempo Saturday (5/9 at 7 pm) features a conversation about the concert and the college's history.

Tchaikovsky is best known in operatic circles mostly for three of his eleven operas: “Eugene Onegin,” “Mazeppa,” and “The Queen of Spades.” You’ve heard “Cherevichki,” “Vakula the Smith,” and “The Enchantress” on the Sunday Opera, but on this week’s program (3/24 3:00 p.m.), we’re turning to his second existing opera, “The Oprichnik” from 1874, and it’s hopefully another work with which you aren’t that familiar.

For a few years after 2020 hit, people became obsessed with once again being able to travel. Now, with the price of oil and gas (and rising prices in general), many have started to bemoan the fact that traveling might not be in the cards once again this year. To help remedy this, we’re looking at songs about traveling on this week’s Dress Circle (5/17 7:00 p.m.) in the hopes we can vicariously ease the angst many are feeling.

The last of three programs surveying all of Liszt’s Piano Etudes, this Friday (4/17, rebroadcast Saturday 4/18)

Franz Schreker was another composer whose work was censured because of the rise in anti-Semitism in Germany in the early 1930’s, and he went from being hailed as the future of German opera to obscurity. We’ll celebrate the music of Schreker which is said to be a lush mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, and Expressionism on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/19 3:00 p.m.).