2007 Playlists


January 1, 2007Listener submissions from around the country
January 8, 2007 Poetry that inspired Rachmaninoff and other Russian poetry
January 15, 2007 Unusual events in the lives of famous musicians, Part I
January 22, 2007 Unusual events in the lives of famous musicians, Part II
January 29, 2007Writings of Oscar Wilde

February 5, 2007 A special program for Valentines Day which begins this program’s 10th year on the air
February 12, 2007 Tchaikovsky and his patroness Madame von Meck
February 19, 2007 Franz Liszt—in the eyes of his contemporaries
February 26, 2007 The life of soprano Maria Malibran

March 5, 2007 Listener submissions from around the country
March 12, 2007 selections from the collection The Assassin’s Cloak, excerpt from the world’s greatest diarists
March 19, 2007 poetry about the heavens and stars, including music from Russell Steinberg’s collection, Desert Stars
March 26, 2007 anonymous love letters from the website: collectiveexperience.org

April 2, 2007 a program of ancient Japanese haiku
April 9, 2007 love letters of Kahlil Gibran
April 16, 2007 Mona is joined by guest Eugenia Zukerman
April 23, 2007 Selections from The 50 Greatest Love letters
April 30, 2007 poetry of Emily Dickinson

May 7, 2007 Selections from Solomon’s Song of Songs
May 14, 2007 Romantic poetry of ancient China
May 21, 2007 Life of Don Carlo Gesualdo
May 28, 2007Mona is joined by guest, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

June 4, 2007Anecdotes of famous people
June 11, 2007Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
June 18, 2007Selections from famous love letters
June 25, 2007Listener submissions from around the country

July 2, 2007a program in honor of Independence Day
July 9, 2007the love between Alban and Helene Berg
July 16, 2007Love letters of Beethoven
July 23, 2007Selections from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke
July 30, 2007poetry of Oscar Wilde

August 6, 2007 International Love Poetry
August 13, 2007 Romantic poetry written by the producer of The Romantic Hours, Doug Ordunio
August 20, 2007 poetry of Rene Daumal
August 27, 2007 Mona is joined by Karen Lystra, author of a book about 19th century American love letters

September 3, 2007 Family ties
September 10, 2007 Amusing stories about famous musicians
September 17, 2007 Mona’s guests will be members of the piano-playing family, The 5 Browns
September 24, 2007 Mona is joined by singer-actress Andrea Marcovicci

October 1, 2007 A visit to Père Lachaise
October 8, 2007 Listener submissions from around the country
October 15, 2007 Famous 19th Century Courtesans
October 22, 2007 Robert Schumann, the inner man
October 29, 2007 Famous love letters of historic writers

November 5, 2007 Life experiences of Mozart
November 12, 2007 Interesting stories of famous composers
November 19, 2007 Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, Edith Wharton, Isadora Duncan & Sarah Bernhardt
November 26, 2007 Lighter Side of Gioacchino Rossini