Week of May 26, 2025: Treasure Hunt – Bill explores the music sent to his inbox by listeners, choosing his favorite “treasures” among them and presenting them in this week-long program. Selections include albums from Víkingur Ólafsson, Lisa Batiashvili, and Matthias Goerne. 

Week of June 2, 2025: It Takes Two to Tango – Bill starts by sharing tunes with two musical lines, where one line goes up while the other goes down to create a counter melody, to complex sonatas like Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata for violin and piano. This week will feature remarkable performances of musicians working in tandem playing Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. We’ll also savor the great love duets of Verdi, Puccini, and Wagner. Oh, don’t miss the meowing cat duets of Rossini and Ravel.

Week of June 9, 2025: Giuseppe Verdi, Part I – This week we begin a ten-part series surveying the life and music of Giuseppe Verdi, a towering figure in Italian art and perhaps the greatest composer of nineteenth-century opera. We’ll explore the nooks and crannies of Verdi’s repertoire, including a trip to Medieval Spain, Shakespeare’s Scotland, and even France! Despite Verdi being known for his work in opera, an art form intimately connected with language, his music transcends words. To end our first week on Verdi, we will listen to his overtures and as Bill would say, “Man, that boy wrote a lot of music!”