Following a feeling, today's show features a variety of composers and artists. Starting with composers Milton Babbitt, Cecile Chaminade, and Andre Jolivet, before meeting up with Wynton Marsalis, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.

There is something special about today.

DON'T FORGET TO BUY TICKETS FOR KRUU-FM'S CLASSICAL GALA BENEFIT CONCERT COMING UP NEXT SATURDAY MAY 10th at the SONDHEIM CENTER featuring cellists Elle Wells and Dr, Charles Lee, dancer Catherine Wells and pianist Meara Oberdieck.

Listening to this week's show will make you feel like you've just stepped into a Vermeer painting...

You'll hear Bach's Harpsichord Concertos and music from an Ames, Iowa, based duo, Basically Baroque. The Chamber Music Society of Fairfield arranged for the duo to perform this Sunday, May 4th at ICON Gallery in Fairfield at 2 p.m. The duo plays harpsichord, baroque oboe and bassoon.

At 10:30 a.m. I'll talk with Kevin Schilling, Associate Professor of Music at Iowa State, one of the members of Basically Baroque.  read more »

This week's two-hour show features music from Bright Sheng, Yo-Yo Ma, Sergey Prokofiev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Beethoven and Vanessa Mae.

"I use [folk melodies] as a point of departure for my inspiration, and I take a lot of freedom. I’m searching for a new idiom that doesn’t belong to preconceived categories."

—Bright Sheng