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.

Josh Nannestad guides us through glorious music from performers we lost in 2025. This week we remember conductors Christoph von Dohnanyi and Roger Norrington as well as pianist Alfred Brendel.

Listen To This offers highlights from Morningside University's Christmas program "Heal Our World, Great Prince of Peace". Choirs, bands, string ensemble, and pipe organ music around the theme of peace.

Act II of Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate's mighty celebration of Chickasaw culture, Lowak Shoppola. Native musicians, symphony orchestra, children's choir, soloists, and storytellers deliver the epic tales. A little Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov to finsih out the hour.

For Native American Heritage Month and the day after Thanksgiving, a varied program of (mostly) American music. We will hear the first hald of Lowak Shoppola, a celebration of Chickasaw culture, by Oklahoma Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate, followed by exceprts from Symphony Americana (Mark O'Connell) and Elijah (Felix Mendelssohn).

A famous duo of composers, one teacher and one student. Frank Bridge "The Sea" followed by Benjamin Britten's homage to his teacher, "Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge". Sumptuous western art music with Dr. J.