Explore the music before you arrive! The BSO now offers insights about our concert selections in a digital podcast format. Our podcast presenters are Classical WETA 90.9 FM On-Air Hosts David Ginder and Marilyn Cooley, and WBJC 91.5 FM Program Director Jonathan Palevsky.
Podcast Archives by Composer
Select the icon next to each piece to listen to the podcast:
John Adams
The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra 
Absolute Jest
Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major
Barber
Adagio for Strings
Symphony No. 1
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 4
Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 9
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique Part One: Part Two:
Brahms
Symphony No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 2
Bruckner
Symphony No. 4
Chausson
Poème for Violin and Orchestra
Copland
Lincoln Portrait
Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Dvořák
Cello Concerto
Gershwin
An American in Paris 
Glanert
Fresnia
Górecki
Three Pieces in the Old Style for String Orchestra
Haydn
Trumpet Concerto
Steven Mackey
Beautiful Passing
Mahler
Symphony No. 6
Mendelssohn
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Symphony No. 4
Messiaen
Les Offrandes oubliées
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24
Symphony No. 29
Violin Concerto No. 3
Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1
Arvo Pärt
Credo
Prokefiev
Violin Concerto No. 2
Rameau
Suite from Dardanus
Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2
Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Piano Concerto in G Major
Shéhérazade
Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol
Scheherazade
Saint Saëns
Symphony No. 3, "Organ" Part One: Part Two:
Schubert
Overture in the Italian Style
Schumann
Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"
Stravinsky
Concerto in E-Flat, "Dumbarton Oaks"
Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete)
Petrushka
Symphony of Psalms
Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
The Nutcracker
Walton
Violin Concerto
Created by: 
David Ginder
David Ginder, WETA-FM's early-morning host, grew up in a household where a pipe organ occupied most of the living room.
His instruments were piano and cello and, although his Ithaca College degree is in broadcasting, he divided his school time about equally between the music building and Ithaca radio stations.
Ginder's commitment to public radio started in upstate New York with a commute to and from a young station that took almost as long as his show there. It was the early Saturday morning program at WSKG in Binghamton.
He went on to WITF in Harrisburg (although the station was located, during his early years there, in Hershey on the corner of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues) where he was music director. Ginder hosted the afternoon show, scheduled music, and produced and hosted a busy schedule of local concerts for broadcast.
In Gainesville, Florida, Ginder taught public radio skills to University of Florida journalism students at WUFT.
Ginder came to WETA in 1989. He lives in Virginia with his wife and their three cats. In his spare time, he enjoys birding and bicycling.
Marilyn Cooley
Marilyn Cooley has been surrounded by great music all of her life. She grew up in a household where classical music was a part of every day, in recordings, on the radio, and in performance at home.
"When I was growing up, my parents were much involved in classical music," says Cooley. "They were both pianists, and Dad also played the organ at church. So I was exposed to classical music at a very young age. Beyond the family, my main source of classical music was WGUC, the local public radio station in Cincinnati. The station introduced me to the breadth of classical music."
Inspired by appearances at state competitions with her high school choir, Cooley chose to study music throughout her academic career. Following her undergraduate degree in music, she earned her Master of Music degree at Northwestern University, where she performed as chorister and soloist with the University Collegium Musicum, and specialized in music of the Renaissance and early Baroque.
After serving as music announcer at WGUC in Cincinnati, and later as announcer and music director at Baltimore station WBJC, Cooley came to WETA in 1985 as the late night music announcer. She is now heard each weekday from 10 am to 2 pm on Classical WETA 90.9 FM.
About working in radio, she says, "It's fun for me to find something about the performers or the music that invites a conversation. Listeners sometimes come to think of radio personalities as their friends, and the radio station comes to feel like home. I enjoy that relationship, and the opportunity to bring to listeners the music that we all love."
A former animal care volunteer at the Animal Welfare League of Arlington and the primate and panda unit at the National Zoo, Cooley is a certified Healing Touch for Animals® practitioner and owner of Nova Holistic Animal Care.
Jonathan Palevsky
Jonathan Palevsky is the Program Director at WBJC 91.5 FM. He has been with the station since 1986 when he became a part-time announcer, and has been the station’s Program Director since 1990. Originally from Montreal, Jonathan came to Baltimore in 1982 to study classical guitar at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. He has hosted just about every conceivable time slot at WBJC, but can regularly be heard hosting the WBJC Operafest, the music review program "Face the Music" and the CD reissue program "Past Masters."
Jonathan's current off-air obsessions include skiing, playing guitar and being the host of Cinema Sundays at the Charles Theatre.