We’ll visit Arizona this morning with Eric Ewazen’s Grand Canyon Suite. Like the canyon, the music for horn ensemble feels broad, awe-inspiring, and colorful.

The summer solstice is on Sunday, June 21st – so this will be the first Sunday of Summer AND Father’s Day! You’ll hear Antonio Vivaldi’s peppy SUMMER CONCERTO from the Four Seasons played by an ensemble that includes Dutch keyboard player and two of his talented children on Sunday Baroque this weekend, Sunday starting at 7 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5 and our music stream.

For some musicians, the promise of America meant more than opportunity - it meant safety.This World Refugee Awareness Month, America 250: The American Experience celebrates composer Franz Waxman and pianist Vladimir Horowitz, two artists who found refuge in the United States and whose music became part of America's cultural story.Join us tonight at 8 for America 250: The American Experience on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5 and our music stream.

What better way to welcome the summer solstice and honor Juneteenth than with the relaxed sound of “Summertime” sung by Audra McDonald? It’s a jazz standard that comes from the 1935 opera featuring an African American cast, Porgy and Bess.

In a noisy world, Arvo Pärt's music offers something rare: stillness. This week on Carnegie Hall Live, hear the Estonian Festival Orchestra, conductor Paavo Järvi, and violinist Midori in a program devoted to the music of Arvo Pärt.Carnegie Hall Live brings the concert hall to you tonight at 8 on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5 and our music stream.

Composers Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti called their house in Mount Kisco, New York "Capricorn" because it was sunny even in the darkest months of winter. Inspired by their life together, Barber composed the Capricorn Concerto, with moments that are light and bright, and others that are tender and heartfelt.

What connects a celebrated writer in 1920s England, a housewife in postwar Los Angeles, and a modern-day New Yorker? It's the story at the heart of The Hours.Inspired by three women whose lives are linked by the writings of Virginia Woolf, Philip Glass's Oscar-nominated score captures the quiet moments that can change a life.Step into the world of The Hours with music by Philip Glass, tonight on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

What was it like to see the Statue of Liberty grow larger as you sailed into New York Harbor, searching for a new life in a new country? Lady Liberty Suite by Karen LeFrak is restless and determined, like the immigrants it honors.

Summer officially arrives this weekend, bringing longer days and warmer nights. Alexander Glazunov captured that sense of seasonal change in The Seasons, a ballet inspired by the rhythms of the natural world.Hear Glazunov's The Seasons tonight on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Growing up in Cuba, Arturo Sandoval got involved with jazz, eventually playing trumpet. While on tour outside of Cuba, he defected with the help of prominent American jazz musicians. Hear him and other musicians who found refuge in the United States to honor World Refugee Awareness Month in America 250: The American Experience.