Composers Datebook

American Public Media

Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.

2827 - Richard Strauss, hero

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Episodios

mar., 03 mar. 2026

lun., 02 mar. 2026

dom., 01 mar. 2026

sáb., 28 feb. 2026

vie., 27 feb. 2026

jue., 26 feb. 2026

mié., 25 feb. 2026

mar., 24 feb. 2026

lun., 23 feb. 2026

dom., 22 feb. 2026

sáb., 21 feb. 2026

vie., 20 feb. 2026

jue., 19 feb. 2026

mié., 18 feb. 2026

mar., 17 feb. 2026

lun., 16 feb. 2026

dom., 15 feb. 2026

sáb., 14 feb. 2026

vie., 13 feb. 2026

jue., 12 feb. 2026

mié., 11 feb. 2026

mar., 10 feb. 2026

lun., 09 feb. 2026

dom., 08 feb. 2026

sáb., 07 feb. 2026

vie., 06 feb. 2026

jue., 05 feb. 2026

mié., 04 feb. 2026

mar., 03 feb. 2026

lun., 02 feb. 2026

Composers Datebook

Episodios

Richard Strauss, hero

Worthington's Dream

Higdon's 'An Exaltation of Larks'

Nielsen's Symphony No. 3

Timely music by Beethoven and Leroy Anderson

Symphonies by Bizet and Harris

Opening of Royal Albert Hall

'The Wound Dresser' by John Adams

Julia Perry's Violin Concerto

Bernstein conducts Ives

The Theatrophone

Harbison's 'Olympic Dances'

Smyth the Prisoner

Music by and about telephones

The Night the Lights Went Out on Elliott Carter

A Romance for Bassoon

A belated Elgar premiere

Orff's 'Trionfo di Aphrodite'

Elsa Barraine

The Brothers Johnson write an anthem

'Music for Two Big Instruments'

Hanson's 'Merry Mount' at the Met

Mozart starts keeping track

Virgil Thomson and Wallace Stevens in Hartford

Borodin's String Quartet No. 2

Stephen Paulus and the Commissioning Club

Verdi's 'Otello' premieres

The passing of Iannis Xenakis

Kurtag's Tribute

Haydn's 'real' Miracle Symphony