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Five pianists who deserve wider attention.

A Tempo this Saturday (7/15 at 7 pm) checks back in with Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra of the USA, launched 10 years ago to offer talented young musicians an opportunity to work and perform together with leading conductors and soloists.

Hear a rebroadcast of last week's What Makes it Great with the music of Carole King and Joni Mitchell this Friday (7/7) at 8 pm.

The Lyric Stage Sunday (7/9 at 8 pm). presents Andre Modeste Gretry's L'Epreuve villageoise.

Our final opera from the Vienna State Opera is Richard Strauss' "Salome" with Malin Bystrom in the title role. We'll continue with an afternoon of the music of Strauss with another of his one-act operas "Feuersnot" followed by his mesmerizing "Metamorphosen."

This program looks at two heroines of the "Old West," Annie Oakley through Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" and Calamity Jane through the musical by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster from a variety of recordings.

A Tempo this Saturday (7/8 at 7 pm) looks at just two of the summer musical programs around New Jersey this year - Ocean Grove resident organist Gordon Turk's 50th season with the Great Auditorium, and a brand new opera series at Kelsey Theatre in West Windsor.

We're covering 123 years of theatre history on this week's program from 1899's "The Rounders" to 2022's revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" as we celebrate some of the shows that opened in New York in July.

Lyricist and composer Sheldon Harnick was a fixture on Broadway for several decades, and this program is the first in a series that celebrates his career as a lyricist and includes five of his biggest hits which he wrote with composer Jerry Bock.