After a long week at the office, what better way to get a jump on the weekend than with a little karaoke? Join me this afternoon at 4:00 EST to hear Leopold Stokowski conduct his own symphonic synthesis from Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov.” No one cares if you don’t exactly sound like Chaliapin when you’re stuck in Friday traffic.

I’ll get you in the mood with the overture “Tsar Boris” by the regrettably short-lived Russian composer Vasily Kalinnikov, whose birthday anniversary it is today – but you’ll want to be there at 4 sharp!

At 6:00, it’s “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies. It will be a program devoted to “arch harpsichords” in mysteries and thrillers. On this Friday the 13th, why not? I’ll have more about it on my Facebook page later this afternoon.

Toss some salt over your shoulder, caress a rabbit’s foot (preferably while it’s still on the rabbit), and join me today between 4 and 7:00 EST for plenty of musical good luck, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.