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A Tempo Saturday (6/28) features a conversation with the artistic directors of the Chelsea Music Festival, which this year is celebrating music and storytelling by American composers, musicians, artists, chefs and other creative forces.

A Tempo Saturday (7/18 at 7 pm) features a conversation with the new president and CEO of Opera America, which provides support programs for American opera companies.

A tribute to poet, visual artist and educator Bette Distler (1935-1986), this Friday (7/17, rebroadcast Saturday 7/18)

We’re off to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden on this week’s Sunday Opera (7/19 3:00 p.m.) and their 2025 production of Leos Janacek’s “The Makropulos Affair” or “The Makropulos Case” or “The Makropulos Case,” or “The Makropulos Thing” (a direct translation from the play by Karel Capek on which it is based). It was composed between 1923 and 1925 and had its world premiere at the National Theatre in Brno in 1926.

On this week’s Dress Circle (7/12 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to look at an important aspect of a musical: the “I want” song. An “I Want” song appears in many musicals and is usually within the first 20 minutes or so. It lets the audience know the inner-workings of a character, usually the lead, and generally establishes the reasons for why that character does what he or she does throughout the evening.

This second week of broadcasts from the 2026 Raritan River Music Festival features the Trio Ondata this Monday (7/13) at 8 pm.

This broadcast concert Monday (7/6 at 8 pm) kicks off a four-week series highlighting this year's Raritan River Music Festival, held this past May.