What were you doing when you were 14?If you were Mozart, you were working on a three act opera titled “Mitridate re di Ponto” which is our featured work on this week’s Sunday Opera (2/15 3:00 p.m.) in a recording from 2014.

We’re celebrating a birthday on this week’s Dress Circle (2/15 7:00 p.m.).Actually, we’re celebrating two birthdays. This week’s program begins our 43rd year as volunteer hosts of the Dress Circle, a fact of which we’re extremely proud. Since that, in itself, isn’t very musical, we’re also going to be celebrating the 121st birthday of Hyman Arluck who is better known as the fabulous composer of musicals and film songs, Harold Arlen.

This broadcast Monday (2/9 at 8 pm) includes the world premiere of a Piano Quintet by Spanish-American compeer/pianist Jorge Tabares.

Another program featuring memorable commercially released piano performances from the BBC Archives this Friday (2/6, rebroadcast Saturday 2/7)

A Tempo (2/7) looks at the upcoming tour of Fellow Travelers, whose creators have found new relevance in its story of those caught up in the 1950s Lavender Scare.

for this week’s program (2/8 3:00 p.m.), we’re heading back to the 18th century for an opera that takes place around the 12th century BC in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Demonfoonte” or “Demofonte” or a variety of other titles. Based on a very popular libretto by Pietro Metastasio, the opera had its premier in Milan in 1743. The story is set in ancient Thrace during a “legendary and mythical” time.

Once again, we’re getting ready for Valentine’s Day on this week’s Dress Circle (2/8 7:00 p.m.), and even if you don’t have a Valentine per se, you should really treat yourself by tuning in this week for “Non Love Love Songs” for the day that you make as special as you want. These are “Non-Love Love Songs” because they aren’t the usual “Moon – June – Spoon – I love you songs” one generally expects at this time. These, sometimes in a rather sneaky manner, hint or imply love and possible happy endings.

Works by David Diamond, Leopold Godowsky, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns and more.

The symphony performs "A Night at the Movies", featuring works by the master film composer on this broadcast concert Monday (2/2 at 8 pm).