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By the turn of the 18th century, Vienna, the musical center of Europe, the city of Mozart and Haydn, was ready for something new and exciting, and that’s what it got with the arrival of Beethoven. One of the early large-canvas works from this period was the Piano Concerto No. 3, our featured work this Sunday.

This week we highlight French music for the stage in the mid-19th century with a couple of overtures from the comic operas and a complete performance of Adolphe Adam’s balletGiselle, a tale of seduction, betrayal, and revenge from a cadre of ghosts.

Continuing with our series of the complete Mozart Symphonies, we come to No. 3, innocently catalogued as such, but now considered spurious. But, hey, we have the manuscript written in Mozart’s eight-year-old handwriting. How can that be?

Tonight's On the Flipside celebrates the most important song of the past 60 yrs as selected by listeners, friends, and family.

By 1804, Beethoven’s formidable output of piano music had slowed considerably. His one sonata of that year was the very short No. 22.He had other things up his sleeve, and one of those was the watershed Eroica Symphony. we’ll hear it this Sunday night — and we’ll hear that short sonata as well, as we work our way through the entire cycle of the Beethoven sonatas.

It is with great sadness that I tell you that our dear friend Dave Grooms passed away early morning June 24. Dave was 64 years old. Throughout tonight's program I will play for you some of his songs, and music from some of his favorite artists including, of course the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jerry Garcia, Bob Marley, David Crosby, Levon Helm, and much more.

It’s Russian music, but Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture pairs so well with fireworks that we Americans like to borrow it for our Fourth of July festivities. Before you head out to watch the skyrockets, hear the Czar’s cannons on Mozart’s Attic this Sunday. There’s plenty of time before it gets dark.

We’re going way back in time this Sunday with music that is Medieval or that has Medieval roots, beginning with the Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos and their sleeper best-seller CD of Gregorian chants released nack in 1994.

Closer to horoscopes than to Hubble telescopes, Gustav Holst wrote The Planets as a look at the astrological significance of our solar system neighbors.