Wednesday night October 19 starting at 7:00 on FM 90.9 you’ll hear an “Evening Concert Special” from the “Wind and Rhythm” series: “Music of Fantasia” followed at 8:00 by Episode 1 of the four-part series “The Middle” hosted by Jeremy Hobson It’s a live call-in program focused on issues of interest ahead of the midterm elections.

Monday night August 15 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. From the archives you’ll hear Pierre Boulez conduct Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” and Dukas’ “La Peri”.  Also on the program, Leonard Bernstein is the soloist and conductor in Beethoven’s “1st Piano Concerto”.

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Beethoven concerto from the piano.

Sain-Saens wrote his 3rd Symphony, the "Organ" Symphony in 1886 while Dukas, of the next generation of composers, wrote La Peri in 1912....