The week's broadcast features a medley from Victory at Sea, composed by Richard Rodgers and orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett for a documentary series about World War II, and then Leonard Bernstein conducts Aaron Copland’s heroic Third Symphony and The Airborne Symphony by Marc Blitzstein.

Jaap van Zweden conducts the Mahler's Sixth Symphony, which features fateful march rhythms, bittersweet lullabies, and a series of thunderous hammer blows.

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with music director Joshua Bell and guest conductor Jaime Martin, celebrates the 100th birthday of its founder Sir Neville Mariner with a festive concert of music by Handel, Mozart, Haydn, and Vaughan Williams, plus the world premiere of a new work by Errollyn Wallen.

Robert Aubry Davis explores the sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach. Enjoy an encore broadcast Mondays at noon.

Michael Barone hosts this program featuring music from the diverse repertoire for the organ.

Each week Bill explores a different theme in classical music with illuminating commentary and musical examples, over the course of time sampling from all genres and eras of classical music. This week: "Aaron Copland.”