Samplings from the soundtracks to the films Carmen and Oppenheimer by Nicholas Britell and Ludwig Göransson.

An all too brief sampling from the finest years in jazz, 1957 through 1959, featuring John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.

A sampling of some magnificent contemporary music, and a brief sampling of a 200-year-old classic, Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula.

A sampling of the music by French composer Hugh de Courson, and a brief foray into unity consciousness and the fall from grace.

Portraits of summer by Ray Charles, Vivaldi, Gershwin, Janis Joplin, Luciano Pavarotti, Sting and a few others for an hour of superb music.

Songs, ballads and poetry from Ovid to Tom Waits that tell stories for the long hot summer days and nights of July.

Music for the heat of summer featuring the Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola’s film One From the Heart.

Damn everything but the circus, and this week’s collection of song and story telling from Ovid to The Boss.

In honor of the solstice, a sampling of Mark Hoffman’s film version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

A brief review of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute with all its Masonic symbolism, as timely today as it was when premiered 200 years ago.

More of what you’ve come to expect–music that celebrates the glorious month of June.