Explore the Dies Irae, a spooky medieval melody that still shows up in all kinds of music - from Franz Liszt to Frozen!

Go Into The Woods, to Ancient Rome and to the Tony Awards with the music of Stephen Sondheim and the Pasadena Playhouse's Producing Artistic Danny Feldman this week on Classical Sprouts.

What happens when you combine classical music with bluegrass? A goat rodeo! This week on Classical Sprouts, join Producer Emily as she shares some of the music from The Goat Rodeo Sessions, performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan.

Experience Mozart's famous opera through the eyes of everyone's favorite birdcatcher, Papageno!

This composer was a contemporary of Franz Lizst, but didn't have her work published during her lifetime. Now, Interlochen Arts Camp Instructor of Piano Jocelyn Swigger is on a mission to uncover, publish, and perform the music of Agnes Tyrrell! Hear it here first!

Kindness is key in Rossini's take on Cinderella, where there's no magic: no glass slippers, no pumpkin carriage, and no fairy godmother!

Learn about the history of the saxophone through the actual instruments themselves! Jake Goldwasser is a saxophone player, a saxocologist, and the curating fellow with the Greenleaf Collection at Interlochen Center For The Arts, and he's our guest on Classical Sprouts this week, bringing to life the stories of some really cool and really old saxophones!

Soft-hearted Pirates! Fast-talking Major-Generals! Love, insomnia, battles, and love for the Queen! We’re heading to the shores of Cornwall, England with our pirate costumes as we explore the Gilbert and Sullivan favorite, "The Pirates of Penzance!"

We're swabbing the deck, hanging out with cats and goats, listening to some reallllly old saxophones and more this season on Classical Sprouts!

Dig into four movements of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and hear how they sound as the original piano score, how it grows into a piece for orchestra, and how other ensembles have imagined them!