March madness! Josh Nannestad moves us smartly forward in step with music of Sousa, Elgar, and Karl King. Unusual submissions from Stravinsky, Liszt, Grieg, and more.

An hour of chamber music. Schubert and Debussy frame a conversation with Seth May-Patterson, violist.

During this Black History Month, host Josh Nannestad leads us through exceptional western art music from Black composers and performers. We feature Undine Smith Moore, William Dawson, Florence Price, Randall Goosby, Leontyne Price, Justin Holland, Reginald Mobley, and Scott Joplin.

Host Josh Nannestad chats with two performers about to visit Siouxland: Darrel Fickbohm of Flower and Flame, and Tim Steele of the Coretta Scott King concert. Music of Mozart, Florence Price, and Leena McLin.

On this episode of Listen To This: Dr. J takes us through the genre of toccata, through the centuries. Frescobaldi, Bach, Ravel, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Britten and Widor.

Music for difficult times: selections from the Bach cello suite in d minor and Shostakovich Symphony #8. Also, a performance of a few of the Pictures at an Exhibition by the Minnesota Orchestra and Eiji Oue.

Josh Nannestad explores connections between western art music and the work of American pop songwriter Paul Simon. Debussy, Bernstein, JS Bach, Beethoven, and Purcell are punctuated with several Simon tunes.

Happy New Year! Dr J programs new releases: a major work from Hania Rani, and excerpts from a concept album about Orpheus featuring music of Monteverdi, Caccini, and Gluck.

Dr. J gives us history and context for the first opera ever written expressly for television in the United States: Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Hear the original production from Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, 1951, conducted by Thomas Schippers.

Josh Nannestad guides us through glorious music from musicians that we lost in 2025. This episode includes songwriter Tom Lehrer, conductors Martin Neary and Matthew Best, and composer Sophia Gubaidulina.