Composer Dan Forrest talks about how the music of Johann Sebastian Bach informs his own compositions. And what he would eat for breakfast on Sunday mornings if he weren’t so busy.

Guitarist Jason Vieaux, who joins the Eastern Festival Orchestra at the Eastern Music Festival in July, talks with host Rachel Stewart about his favorite breakfast foods. Vieaux may be a native of Buffalo, but he knows a thing or two about Southern breakfast. Learn more about Vieaux's performance at the Eastern Music Festival . Pictured: Jason Vieaux; photo by Tyler Boye.

Rachel chats with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers about her performance at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, NC.

Rachel also chats with Scott Allen Jarrett, artistic director of Bach Akademie Charlotte, a new organization in the Charlotte area devoted to the music of Bach and the baroque era. Although it’s only their first year of existence, they’re launching their inaugural Charlotte Bach Festival. Learn more : Bach Akademie web site Scott Allen Jarrett

Stephen Darlington, Director of Music at Christ Church, Oxford, describes Francesco Durante’s Requiem Mass in C minor as one of the most important orchestral Requiem settings of the 18th century. He talks to WDAV about this somewhat overlooked work.

Rachel talks with Dr. Anton Armstong, conductor of the renowned St. Olaf’s Choir, who visits Winston-Salem to guest conduct a couple of concerts in early May. He'll explain the importance of music in the liturgical year and let us in on his favorite breakfast joint in NYC. Learn more about the Winston-Salem Centenary and Salem College events Pictured: Dr. Anton Armstrong

Rachel chats with Jamie DeMent, a North Carolina writer, chef, farmer and restaurant owner who has a new cookbook out called The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from my Carolina Farm . Listen to find out about the value in seasonal cooking and eating local. Learn more about Jamie Dement: The Farmhouse Chef Pictured:  Jamie DeMent; photo by: Felicia A. Trujillio.

Rachel chats with author and nationally recognized authority on Southern cooking, Damon Lee Fowler . His latest book is Ham, A Savor the South Cookbook . Fowler explains why ham is a staple of the southern diet, what makes country ham so salty, and how to prepare the perfect ham biscuit. Learn more about Ham: A Savor the South Cookbook

WDAV chats with one of the most acclaimed pianists of our time, Leon Fleisher. Fleisher lost the use of his right hand in the mid-1960s and had to reinvent his career by performing repertoire for the left hand. One of the key works in that repertoire is Bach's Chaconne, originally for solo violin, arranged for the left hand by Johannes Brahms. Fleisher explains why Brahms' arrangement is so great, and tells a story involving music lessons, an old school piano teacher and lamb chops. Pictured: Leon Fleisher, photo by Chris Hartlove

Artistic Director for Thomas Savoy talks with WDAV about how he discovered incomplete scores for Antonio Caldara’s Mass in A, which hadn’t been performed in 200 years. He also shares breakfast tips for a busy Sunday morning. Pictured: Thomas Savoy/ savoymusichouse.com