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William Shakespeare has fired the imaginations of many composers -- so many that we can only scratch the surface of musical works inspired by the Bard of Avon in a single program. But scratch it we shall this Sunday with a multi-national look at scenes from Shakespeare in music, as interpreted by six different composers. Hearken thee at six o’clock.

The music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky endured some criticism from both the critics and his fellow composers who felt that he needed to be more in step with where Russian music was going in the 19th century. What was that all about? We’ll see if the Fourth Symphony has any clues for us this Sunday night.

Before leaving his hometown of Salzburg, Mozart wrote the first of his three great masses, the only one he actually finished, the Coronation Mass in C major. We’ll hear it this Sunday.

I’ve been extremely saddened to hear of the loss of Ms Ronnie Spector (Born Veronica Yvette Greenfield, last week. The songs of the Ronettes, were among the very first songs I’d heard in my life. Tonight On The FlipSide We remember Ronnie Spector and friends.

Before Albert Schweitzer was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, he was a Bach scholar and concert organist. Dr. Schweitzer’s playing might not quite be up to modern performance standards, but we’ll hear a sample or two, and you can see what you think.

This Sunday we start a project that will continue until sometime next spring; a cycle of the complete symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We begin at the beginning: the Symphony No. 1, written when Mozart was eight years old.

We go back to Colonial and Federal America this week with music from the Revolutionary era, and what they were listening to in England at around the same time, and then in the third hour, we’ll see what all this eventually led to: American music of the modern era.

Our cycle of the Mozart symphonies continues this week with the Symphony No. 2 in Bb major. While the First Symphony appears to be largely the genuine effort of a child prodigy, we think Papa Leopold Mozart helped with this one, probably quite a bit.

A plethora of related instruments all rely on the vibrations of a plucked string. There are instruments of the sort in just about all of earth’s cultures, and we’ll explore just a few of them in an hour of plectral music this Sunday.

Last week we heard from some composers who, through luck or prescience, were able to escape the authoritarian regimes of 20th-century Europe. This Sunday we’ll hear music from seven who were not so fortunate.