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Think of all the great dance sequences put on film - from the Kit Kat Club in "Cabaret" to the New York streets where Sharks fought Jets in "West Side…

In the third and final installment of our June celebration, co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies commemorate Igor Stravinsky's birthday by featuring performances of his Symphony of Psalms and Firebird Suite. We'll also hear June performances by the Kansas City Symphony of John Corigliano's Snapshot: Circa 1909 and Dimitri Shostakovich's powerful and defiant Symphony No. 5.

Celebrate the birthdays and music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms as co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies explore the fascinating, if transient, relationship between these two musical giants. We'll hear Tchaikovsky's Cappricio italien and Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra, plus Arnold Schoenberg's orchestration of Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor.

This week, co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies explore the musical and historical elements of Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra, Charles Ives' Symphony No. 3 and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 5, formerly labeled his Symphony No. 3.

Listen to performances of "The Oak," a piece by Florence Price that was only recently discovered, and Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, one of the 20th century's towering choral masterpieces.

Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the December birthdays of Ludwig van Beethoven, Bohuslav Martinů and Jean Sibelius. We'll hear two overtures from Beethoven, Martinů's "Symphony No. 4" and two majestic works from Jean Sibelius.

Join co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies as they continue a birthday month celebration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart paired with a celebration of composers also born in January: Josef Suk and Édouard Lalo. We'll hear the 17th and 20th piano concertos of Mozart, Suk's "Scherzo Fantastique," and Lalo's "Concerto in D Minor for Cello and Orchestra."

In this varied program, co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies kick off Black History Month by highlighting the work of composer Adolphus Hailstork. We'll also celebrate Felix Mendelssohn's birthday and hear emotional music written for the stage by Gioachino Rossini and Samuel Barber.

Principal tuba Joe LeFevre joins hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies for a program of Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Kernis and Dvořák. Joe describes the excitement of his debut with the orchestra and how much he enjoys playing Dvořák's "New World Symphony," even though he only plays a total of fourteen notes.

Pfizer is recalling 1 million packages of oral contraceptives because of errors in the order or types of pills. The mistakes could leave women at risk for unintended pregnancy.