A Tempo Saturday (10/18 at 7 pm) looks at Eastman School of Music's plans to expand its media and film composition institute.

It’s a comic battle of the sexes on this week’s Sunday Opera (6/21 3:00 p.m.) with a bit of fiancée swapping from the minds of Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte, ossia la scuola degli amanti” which translates with some care to “Women Are Like That or The School for Lovers”

We’re turning to the first of two programs on this week’s Dress Circle (10/19 7:00 p.m.) that will feature some of our favorite songs from stage and screen musicals and soundtracks. Michael is up first, and he’s chosen 13 vastly different songs that really do express his rather eclectic tastes, and by no means is this even the tip of the iceberg of the list of his “favorites.”

This concert broadcast Monday (10/13) features the percussion quartet's concert in Princeton last month.

The third of seven programs devoted to the complete Chopin Mazurkas, this Friday (10/10 at 3 pm, rebroadcast Saturday 10/11 at 6 pm).

A Tempo (10/11) offers a peek into the Metropolitan Opera's exhibit featuring costumes and sketches spanning nearly 150 years.

The tragic tale of a headstrong child and an overprotective father who angers the wrong people is the subject of this week’s Sunday Opera (10/12 3:00 p.m.) in the LA Opera’s production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto" starring Quinn Kelsey in the title role.

Although it doesn't happen as much as it once did, hit songs from the musicals do occasionally make the Billboard charts, and we'll be looking at a least a dozen of them on this week's Dress Circle (10/12 7:00 p.m.). We're including three number one hits in Louis Armstrong's version of "Hello, Dolly!", The 5th Dimension's version of "Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In" from "Hair," and "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto."

Movements from Beethoven's Sonata Op. 27 No. 2, "Moonlight," and Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, as well as music by Karol Szymanowski, Alexander Scriabin and Roy Harris.

The second of seven programs devoted to the complete Chopin Mazurkas, this Friday (10/3 at 3 pm, rebroadcast Saturday 10/4 at 6 pm).