Composers Datebook

Composers Datebook

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.

Latest Episode

Timely Argento and Takemitsu (05.10.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • How to win friends and influence Shostakovich 04.10.2025
  • Ceremonial Beethoven and Schuman 03.10.2025
  • Joan Tower's 'Made in America' 02.10.2025
  • Flagg-waving in Colonial Boston? 01.10.2025
  • The Twilight Zone 30.09.2025
  • Holst (and Colin Matthews) in outer space 29.09.2025
  • Bielawa's 'Chance Encounter' 28.09.2025
  • In Memoriam: Schubert and Oldham 27.09.2025
  • Weill's 'September Song' 26.09.2025
  • Shostakovich's 60th 25.09.2025
  • Pendercki's Symphony No. 6 24.09.2025
  • A Mass in time of terror? 23.09.2025
  • Higdon welcomes Autumn 22.09.2025
  • Of froth and Friml 21.09.2025
  • Sibelius passes 20.09.2025
  • 'On the Transmigration of Souls' 19.09.2025
  • Prokofiev and Leifs agree: 'There's no place like home!' 18.09.2025
  • Ellington's 'Money Jungle' 17.09.2025
  • A concerto by Sally Beamish 16.09.2025
  • Henry Brant's 'Northern Lights' 15.09.2025

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