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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.

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.