The fourth of seven programs devoted to the complete Chopin Mazurkas, this Friday (10/17 at 3 pm, rebroadcast Saturday 10/18 at 6 pm).

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

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.

This episode Sunday (10/12 at 2 pm) surveys 40 years of the composer's choral works.

Music Director Diane Wittry leads the orchestra in this performance from this past April in this broadcast Friday (10/10 at 8 pm).

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.

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."