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Antonio Vivaldi liked the springtime and autumn of the year; summer and winter, not so much. Regardless of whether he was reveling in the new greenery or kvetching about the sleet, he was one who could turn observations of the weather into an art.

Mozart’s Fourth: it’s this week’s installment in our cycle of all 41 Mozart symphonies — to be continued.

This week finds us at Number 21 in our chronology of the 41 symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; we’re over the hump in a project begun last July.

We go back as far as the 11th century for a telling of the Christmas Story in music of the Middle Ages in an imaginative collection realized by the Waverly Consort to open this week’s program.

Also: Tens of thousands of Muslims continue to flee violence in Myanmar; publisher Tronc is buying the New York Daily News; and today's the 40th anniversary of the Voyager II launch to deep space.

Also: How Congress could save DACA; Aung San Suu Kyi says fake news is to blame for misinformation on fleeing Rohingyas; and the Blue Jays and the Red Sox play baseball's longest game this season.

When the Pilgrims left Southampton in 1620, they left behind a thriving European musical scene. Not that the Pilgrims listened to much music; actually they tended to frown on it. But just for fun, we’ll listen to some of the tunes they might have heard if they had been listening — which they weren’t.

Early in the 20th century, Bela Bartok headed for the villages around Hungary, lugging along an Edison wax cylinder recorder, to capture the folk melodies of the countryside before they were gone forever.

It was in 1896 that Richard Strauss tried to express Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophies through music. We’ll go light on the Nietzsche as we see what Zarathustra has to say this Sunday.

We conclude two series this week with the final of Bach’s six cello suites, recorded by Pablo Casals in 1936, and another of Aaron Copland’s American West pieces. And then we’ll hear a most unfamiliar version of a most iconic piece of American music.