Composers Datebook
A podcast by American Public Media
448 Episodes
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A West-Coast premiere for Still
Published: 7/23/2025 -
de Falla and Sierra
Published: 7/22/2025 -
Mendelssohn for winds
Published: 7/21/2025 -
Music at Watergate
Published: 7/20/2025 -
The long and the short of it
Published: 7/19/2025 -
Sallinen and Kronos
Published: 7/18/2025 -
Water music by Handel and Larsen
Published: 7/17/2025 -
Dale Trumbore's 'How to Go On'
Published: 7/16/2025 -
Bernstein's sabbatical psalms
Published: 7/15/2025 -
'La Marseillaise' by Lambert
Published: 7/14/2025 -
Strauss, Shostakovich, Hitler and Stalin
Published: 7/13/2025 -
Requiems and Elegies by Faure and Rouse
Published: 7/12/2025 -
Hollywood anniversaries
Published: 7/11/2025 -
Handel declines, Schuman accepts
Published: 7/10/2025 -
Respighi's 'The Pines of Rome'
Published: 7/9/2025 -
'The Composer is Dead!'
Published: 7/8/2025 -
'The Ballad of Baby Doe'
Published: 7/7/2025 -
Noteworthy Boulanger and Zwilich
Published: 7/6/2025 -
The theme to 'Seinfeld'
Published: 7/5/2025 -
Wagner's American Centennial commission
Published: 7/4/2025
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.