Connecticut-born poet Katherine Garrison Chapin wrote Plain-Chant for America in collaboration with composer William Grant Still in 1941. She says their work addresses, “the gap between totalitarianism and the American democracy in which I believed.”

If you appreciate all the mind-opening resources your local library has to offer, you’ll be pleased to learn that February is Library Lover’s Month – an annual celebration of school, public, and private libraries of all types. We’ll celebrate Library Lover’s Month this weekend with music by Baroque era composers who not only wrote music, they also wrote BOOKS about their craft. It’s on Sunday Baroque this week, starting at 7 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5 and our music stream.

Reel Music puts movie music front and center.This week, hear the powerful score Quincy Jones wrote for The Color Purple, music that carries the pain, strength, and hope of the story.Film music that doesn’t just play in the background, it pulls you into the story.Reel Music, Saturday at 9 and Sunday at 6 on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Shake off the week and step into a world of play. Bizet’s Children’s Games is pure musical joy, light, charming, and made for a Friday-night unwind. Make a play date tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Are you looking forward to the thrill of downhill skiing and elegance of figure skating? The Winter Olympics start today and you can hear music that gets you in a sporty mood, including a work by Michael Torke written for Olympic games.

Franz Schubert’s Trout Quintet is full of carefree, playful energy, inspired by a trout darting through a stream. It’s long been special to the Kanneh-Mason siblings, and you can hear them bring out the lively back-and-forth Schubert had in mind... tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Do you remember any songs or stories you heard at bedtime? Maybe you’ve passed those down to your kids. Find a moment of calm with a lullaby passed down through four generations in "Mama Dee’s Song for Joel" from the Duo Concerto by Joel Puckett.

It’s Wednesday. You’ve powered through the long meetings, the inbox, the whole first half of the week. Time to celebrate getting over the hump with a little musical victory lap.Tonight on WSHU, hear The Organ Symphony by Camille Saint-Saëns. It's got a bold, soaring finale that feels like crossing the finish line. Listen tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

“Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?” Who’s Scaramouche? Hear him clown around in music, not by Queen, but Darius Milhaud this morning.

Beginning in the late 1700s, enslaved Africans gathered on Sundays at Congo Square in New Orleans. It became one of the most important cultural sites in American music history, a place where dancing, drumming, and African musical traditions lived on.American composer Henry Gilbert drew on that powerful legacy in The Dance in Place Congo. Hear it tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.