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Happy April, and although the month is starting to look like one that’s unsettled as much as March was, we’re still going to celebrate just a few of the shows that opened in April on this week’s Dress Circle (3/5 7:00 p.m.). We’re only looking at eleven musicals this week as we focus on overtures and opening numbers, but we’re still covering 100 years of Broadway history.

This week’s Sunday Opera (4/12 3:00 p.m.) is turning to the work of a mostly forgotten Czech composer, Pavel Haas through his only opera, written in 1936, “Sarlatan,” “The Charlatan.”

A Tempo Saturday (4/11 at 7 pm) features a conversation with Cincinnati Pops conductor John Morris Russell about its latest recording exploring the music of the Harlem Renaissance and its influence.

The second of three programs surveying all of Liszt’s Piano Etudes, this Friday (4/10, rebroadcast Saturday 4/11)

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.).

Who knew that there was a day set aside for the celebration of 8-Track tapes? It’s on April 11, but this week’s Dress Circle (4/12 7:00 p.m.) is dedicated to it since we couldn't let it pass. We need something to celebrate, and it's just so wonderfully strange.

This concert broadcast Monday (4/13) also includes Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2.