Composers Datebook

By American Public Media

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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.

Episode Date
Copland and Kernis on the air
Jul 25, 2025
Hindemith for winds
Jul 24, 2025
A West-Coast premiere for Still
Jul 23, 2025
de Falla and Sierra
Jul 22, 2025
Mendelssohn for winds
Jul 21, 2025
Music at Watergate
Jul 20, 2025
The long and the short of it
Jul 19, 2025
Sallinen and Kronos
Jul 18, 2025
Water music by Handel and Larsen
Jul 17, 2025
Dale Trumbore's 'How to Go On'
Jul 16, 2025
Bernstein's sabbatical psalms
Jul 15, 2025
'La Marseillaise' by Lambert
Jul 14, 2025
Strauss, Shostakovich, Hitler and Stalin
Jul 13, 2025
Requiems and Elegies by Faure and Rouse
Jul 12, 2025
Hollywood anniversaries
Jul 11, 2025
Handel declines, Schuman accepts
Jul 10, 2025
Respighi's 'The Pines of Rome'
Jul 09, 2025
'The Composer is Dead!'
Jul 08, 2025
'The Ballad of Baby Doe'
Jul 07, 2025
Noteworthy Boulanger and Zwilich
Jul 06, 2025
The theme to 'Seinfeld'
Jul 05, 2025
Wagner's American Centennial commission
Jul 04, 2025
Plucky music with Landowska and Harbach
Jul 03, 2025
Bach's 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring'
Jul 02, 2025
Britten's 'Cantata Academica'
Jul 01, 2025
Anton Arensky
Jun 30, 2025
A modern Monteverdi premiere
Jun 29, 2025
Leoni in San Francisco
Jun 28, 2025
Schoenberg for Winds
Jun 27, 2025
Mahler's Ninth
Jun 26, 2025