George Gershwin

41 years ago on a Thursday evening, the first presentation of The Dress Circle aired, and on this week’s program (2/16 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to celebrate that inauspicious beginning with songs from some of the musicals that were playing around the time our program began.

We’re doing our best to prepare you for Valentine’s Day on this week’s Dress Circle (2/9 7:00 p.m.) as we turn to the musicals for songs about the city of romance, Paris.

We've combined the New York musical openings for July and August (for some reason) and arrived at a playlist of 11 shows spanning 153 years of Broadway history. We've also decided to turn to the overtures or opening orchestral pieces to give a fuller sense of these scores.

It’s a showcase of the “shows of December” on this week’s Dress Circle (12/6 7:00 p.m.) as we look at just a few of the shows that opened in New York this…

This week’s episode of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award winning program Between the Keys features a special guest, the 20-year-old…

George and Ira Gershwin are the featured composing team on this week’s Dress Circle (7-7 7:00 p.m.) on a program entitled “Gershwin Interpreted.” Some of…

Spring is the time for all things new, and we’re going to be sampling some recent acquisitions on this week’s Dress Circle (4/21 7:00 p.m.). These “new to…

2019 is being welcomed in on The Dress Circle (1/6 7:00 p.m.) as we look at some of the shows that opened in New York in January. We’ll sample songs from…

The Dress Circle is celebrating the life of George Gershwin this week (7/8 7:00 p.m.) as we approach the 81st anniversary of his untimely death on July…

This Friday and Saturday, What Makes it Great with Rob Kapilow returns for its new season on The Classical Network with a program dedicated to the music…