Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin.

Twenty-five years after the gala re-opening of Sioux City's Orpheum Theater - an event that featured the SCSO, mass choir, and the governor of Iowa - we take a listen through the music of that occasion. Vaughan Williams, Bernstein, and lots of Copland on this episo of Listen To This with Dr. J.

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Scavengers by Kathleen Boland.

On a Labor Day weekend, a parade of very well known wester art music masterpieces, viewed through the frame of working conditions. JS Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Beethoven on this edition of Listen To This with Dr. J.

Listen To This with Dr. J - on a weekend where Leslie Odom, Jr is visiting and the Kennedy Center in DC is shuttered, a program about the centers of power in Washington. Historical recordings from the Kennedy White House and a contemporary performance from the National Symphony Orchestra.

A program of western art music, tracing a 24 hour road trip from Iowa to Washington state. Music of John Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alan Hovhannes, and more on this episode of Listen To This with Dr. J.

An hour of Listen To This with Dr. J that revolves on music written for and by those who are imprisoned. Britten, Bach, and Messiaen provide the bulk of the hour, which includes orchestral, choral, piano, and chamber music.

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Family Meal by Bryan Washington.

Listen to Michael Maxwell as he recommends Everything is Now: the 1960s New York Avant-garde-primal Happenings, Underground Movies, and Radical Pop by J. Hoberman.

As the calendar turns to a new season, Listen To This adopts a new guide through the well-worn path of the four seasons: Iowa songwriter Greg Brown leads into art music works by Frank Bridge, Peter Warlock, Ola Gjeilo, Valentin Silvestrov, and Robert Schumann.

Listen to Michael Maxwell as he recommends A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot.

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup enthralls fans across the globe, Listen To This examines those bits of classical and Boradway music that have been adopted as anthems and chants by the fans in the bleachers. Between matches enjoy some Verdi, Elgar, Puccini, Rodgers and Hammerstein and more@