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All summer long, WCRB is spotlighting American music and the composers who weave the musical fabric of our country.

Among all the year in review articles that pop up each December, here's something a little different - four of my favorite trivia facts from this past…

Anna Handler conducts the rarely heard Violin Concerto by Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann with soloist Joshua Bell, and the kaleidoscopic brilliance of Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition."

In an encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony Orchestra launches their 2025-2026 season with the music by Mozart and Strauss, conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons.

A listener's guide for the opera-curious includes a little history, a little trash-talk and some gorgeous singing.

The big-voiced soprano is in her mid-thirties, and she didn't even hear an opera live until she was in her twenties. Now, she's a sought-after opera singer.

In an encore broadast, British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Boston Symphony debut with Ernest Bloch’s "Schelomo," and Andris Nelsons conducts the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s "Four Black American Dances" and Beethoven’s poetic Symphony No. 7.

In an encore broadcast, Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his BSO debut leading the American premiere of Roberto Sierra's Symphony No. 6, and Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his BSO debut in Edward Elgar’s regal and impassioned Cello Concerto.