Right now, we’re listening to some of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music for “Much Ado About Nothing.” Though he wrote it in his early 20s, for a 1919 production of the play in Vienna, the “Korngold sound” is already very much in evidence. It would later serve him well during his time in Hollywood, where he would compose music for films like “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” Later on in the hour, we’ll hear music by Korngold’s teacher, Alexander Zemlinsky, written for a production of Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline.”

Around 9:00, we’ll be joined by William Walker of The Princeton Singers, who will tell us all about the choir’s Shakespeare-inspired concerts coming up this Saturday evening at Princeton University Art Museum.

Before the morning is out, we’ll hear Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Serenade to Music” (on a text from “The Merchant of Venice”) and Paul Moravec’s 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning composition, “Tempest Fantasy.” It’s all Shakespeare Thursday mornings until 11:00 EDT, as we commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death (on April 23, 1616), on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

“Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again. And then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.”

• Caliban, “The Tempest,” Act III, scene 2