A wide sampling of songs of April and springtime from the medieval to the present day.

A tribute to the osprey, and to basking in the early morning red-spectrum sunlight for the boost of all the brain’s feel good chemicals.

The music, the story, the significance of Erik Satie in shaping modern harmony, contemporary style and today’s aesthetic.

An exploration of the finest celebration of spring, Aguas de Março, and the unparalleled artistry of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Mardi Gras, and an hour of samba and Brazilian music in general. Get out your feathered headdress, it’s Carnival!

The turbulent story of the Köln Concert, a landmark in contemporary music that came within a hair’s breadth of not happening.

Music of Zbigniew Preisner, Alberto Iglesias, James Horner, and a tribute to the courage of Martin Luther King Jr.

As humans have since earliest times, we gather to pass the dark hours with stories, ballads and epic tales–Arachne, The Lady of Shallot, The Walrus and the Carpenter, with music throughout.

With the depths of winter approaching, a sampling of the music of Vasks, Pärt, Arnalds, and Silvestrov.

Music to bury the dying year in the west and birth the next rolling in from the east.

A brief foray into the arcana of the period and then a full array of music of the holidays and the sun.