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He’s done many PBS documentaries, etc. and now he’s a hit on YouTube. I called him for a phone interview for my radio show because he interested me, and he said let’s zoom, have a mutual interview and post it on my YouTube!

The mellow side of Beethoven? He was an angry and unhappy man, but he took joy in the simple pleasure of getting out of the city to spend time in the forest, and he shares that joy with us in this symphony, known as the Pastorale, our featured work this Sunday.

Evreybody’s heard of Beethoven and Brahms, but most composers never attained that degree of fame. This week we’ll look at music by some of those whom most people have never heard of. We’ll do it with a sampling from about 600 years worth of work from composers who haven’t — or haven’t yet — become household names.

Antonio Vivaldi set the Gloria of the Latin Mass to music in an ambitious, and for him unusual, choral work. Twenty years after that, Francis Poulenc took the same idea and wrote a choral Gloria of his own. We’ll hear both this Sunday.

We begin thiis Sunday with music of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky. Then we look at works by Mozart contemporaries Franz Danzi and Carl Stamitz, as we also check in on Mozart himself, continuing along with our cycle of his complete symphonies — a project we began last July.

Two late January birthday boys, Mozart in 1756 and Schubert in 1797...this week we’ll look at some of the characteristic works of these two masters in a time of transition for music.

Michael Praetorius was a Renaissance church and court musician who published a compilation of 300 pieces in a compendium dedicated to the old Greek muse, Terpsichore. The collection is a treasure trove for ancient instrument ensembles. We’ll spend an hour with Mr. Praetorius this Sunday.

In a tumultuous career, Sergei Prokofiev was one of the major composers of the 20th century. We’ll look at some of his music this Sunday with representative works from some of the different circumstances of his life and times.

It’s Washington’s Birthday next Wednesday, and even though George no longer gets a legal holiday to himself these days, we’re going to mark the occasion with some music from Colonial and Federal America on this Sunday’s program.

We’re going to spend some time this Sunday listening to some music from the English choral tradition from the 1200s to modern times. Our cycle of the complete chronology of the Mozart symphonies continues and we’ll see what else we can find up in the attic this week.