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We’ll check in with the Traveling Mozarts as we continue with the cycle of Wolfgang’s symphonies. He’s eleven years old now, and set to premiere his newest symphony with himself and his sister playing in a tavern in the present-day Czech Republic. How did that happen?

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

We’ve been following the progress of young Master Mozart — now going on twelve years old — as he embarks upon the rather busy year of 1768, in which he composes a three-act comic opera at the request of the Emperor: not bad at any age.

Contemporary English composer John Rutter is celebrated for the pageantry of his anthems, and his music received some prominent use during the recent jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II.. We’ll look at his 1985 Requiem as our featured work this Sunday.

The piece will be available as a premium, during On The FlipSide tonight 7-10pm. For a minimum $200 donation for the WFIT Fund Drive, Java John will personally sign the back of this original piece of art for you. And let you keep it!

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.