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Here's my favorite blues albums of 2022 in no particular order.

Gov. Ron DeSantis pushes to solidify Florida’s bans on COVID-19 mandates and a look at what the state’s doing to protect its natural resources.

I've been reminiscing a lot about my home in the mountains 40 years ago. I gave you a little taste of Colorado music a few weeks ago, so here's a whole bunch of new stuff tonight!

In the years before World War I, Paris impressario Sergei Diaghilev commissioned three ballets from Igor Stravinsky. We’ll look at the Paris ballets over the next three weeks on Mozart’s Attic, and we’ll begin with The Firebird this Sunday with the others to follow.

This Sunday we’ll hear the second in our series of the three ballets scored by Igor Stravinsky for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the years before World War I — compositions that estabished him as one of the major composers of that new century.

We start in Russia this Sunday and end up in 20th-century America with lots of stops in-between, and of course we check in on our series of Mozart symphonies with Number 14 this week.

We’ll be looking at some Scottish music this Sunday, going back to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and then contrasting that with some more modern works, some written by Scotsmen and some not. We’ll be leaving the bagpipes behind for this visit to Caledonia.

Bohemian patriot and composer Bedrich Smetana is well known for his tone poem depicting the traverse of one of eastern Euroope’s great rivers, the Moldau. We’ll hear all six of the tone poems encompassing the land, the history, and the legends of this country that is now mostly part of the Czech Republic this Sunday.

Napoleon didn’t get much respect — not musically. This Sunday we’ll hear from three composers — Beethoven, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky — who regarded his reverses with satisfaction and weren’t shy about trumpeting (excuse the pun) their delight at his misfortunes.

In 1717, the exceedingly unpopular King George I of England enlisted court composer George Frederic Handel to write some music for a floating concert on the Thames. King George remained unpopular, but folks by the thousands lined the river banks to hear Handel’s Water Music, our featured work this Sunday.