Upcoming and Noteworthy

Honoring the memories of Michael Tilson-Thomas, Ruth Slenczynska, Michael Harrison and Andrew Thomas, this Friday (5/1, rebroadcast Saturday 5/2)

A Tempo Saturday (5/2 at 7 pm) features a conversation with Mackenzie Melemed about his "Keys Across America" tour.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (5/3 at 2 pm) spotlights two American works from the 1960s.

We’re going for Baroque again on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/3 3:00 p.m.) with a forgotten opera that is finally getting some much deserved recognition: Leonard Vinci’s “Artaserse,” an opera that premiered in Rome in 1730.

Each month has an animal associated with it, and May is associated with the squirrel. Who knew? Well, this week’s Dress Circle (5/3 7:00 p.m.) is definitely not squirrelly in any stretch of the imagination as we look at overtures and opening numbers from 11 of the musicals that opened this month.

Works for violin and piano this Friday (4/24, rebroadcast Saturday 4/25)

Beethoven is probably the best known composer of one-and-done when it comes to operas. However, there were others, and on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/26 3:00 p.m.), we’re focusing on one of those: Robert Schumann’s 1850 work “Genoveva" based loosely on an event in the life of Genevieve de Brabant.

Like all months, April is a month of many celebrations. We’ve already looked at shows that opened in 1965 in order to celebrate National 8-Track Tape Day – We are fully committed to our calendar art, and on this week’s Dress Circle (4/26 7:00 p.m.), we’ll be looking at something we think everyone needs right now: Songs of hope from the musicals as April is the National Month of Hope.

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.).