Composers Datebook
A podcast by American Public Media
438 Episodes
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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 -
Plucky music with Landowska and Harbach
Published: 7/3/2025 -
Bach's 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring'
Published: 7/2/2025 -
Britten's 'Cantata Academica'
Published: 7/1/2025 -
Anton Arensky
Published: 6/30/2025 -
A modern Monteverdi premiere
Published: 6/29/2025 -
Leoni in San Francisco
Published: 6/28/2025 -
Schoenberg for Winds
Published: 6/27/2025 -
Mahler's Ninth
Published: 6/26/2025 -
Mendelssohn's Second
Published: 6/25/2025 -
Harry Partch and Terry Riley
Published: 6/24/2025
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.