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Of the many musical compositions written about April, perhaps the most universally known is “Here Comes the Sun” by George Harrison of the Beatles.

Apparently, things were not going so well for George back in 1969.

Repose has been a listener favorite since the 1980s. Tune in every weeknight at 10 p.m. on Classical IPR.

See this week's playlists below.

The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Janáček’s profoundly moving opera From the House of the Dead, based on the novel by Dostoevsky set in a Siberian prison camp.

This encore broadcast from 2009 starred an extraordinary ensemble cast as the community of damaged but irrepressible inmates.

These pools that, though in forests, still reflect

The total Sky almost without defect,

And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,

Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone.

Repose has been a listener favorite since the 1980s. Tune in every weeknight at 10 p.m. on Classical IPR.

Peter Myles has been a Hollywood film music editor for over 20 years. 

He recently spoke with Classical IPR's Amanda Sewell about his career, starting from his time as a student at Interlochen Arts Camp and Academy.

After earning degrees from the New England Conservatory and Northwestern, Myles played the trumpet professionally and then became a producer for the Delos record label.

We heard some unusual instruments during this week's program, including the zither, played by Anton Karas, and the gyile, played by Bernard Woma.

The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a treasure of the repertory, Puccini’s La Bohème.

This performance, recorded in the fall of 2017, saw the Met debut of the radiant American soprano Angel Blue and is being featured for the first time in a Saturday matinee broadcast.

I love the sound of an orchestra warming up.

The cacophony is hardly musical, but if you listen, you can hear what’s coming.

Fragments of melody float from the din, with hints of the beauty that will soon begin.

Isn’t early spring much like pre-concert magic?

Fragments of birdsong float from the treetops; swelling buds and pastel twigs hint of the beauty that is to come.

A concert begins when the conductor mounts the podium, raises a baton and, with a downbeat, indicates that the musicians should begin.

Repose is an hour of beautiful, relaxing music to help you end your day peacefully. Listen nightly at 10 p.m. on Classical IPR.

This week's playlists are posted below.

Music for the Easter weekend was at the forefront of this week's requests.

See the entire playlist below.

Every year since the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents the Academy Award for Best Original Score. 

The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Dvořák’s hauntingly beautiful fairy-tale Rusalka in an encore broadcast from 2014.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted a cast led by soprano Renée Fleming who starred in one of her signature roles as Rusalka, the water nymph who longs to become human.

You may not have heard the name Peter Myles before, but you've almost certainly heard his work.

Myles has been a sound editor for some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters of the last two decades.

His credits include several films in the Harry Potter, Jason Bourne and Star Wars series.

Enjoy an hour of beautiful, relaxing music every night at 10 on Classical IPR. This week's playlists are provided below.

Monday Ep190615

Ed Blumenthal - Who Knows

Ann Sweeten - Lullaby for Blackie Boo