Artistic director Mimi Stillman named her Dolce Suono Ensemble after a passage in Dante’s “Divine Comedy” that reads “…in voce mista al dolce suono” (“…the words blending with the sweet sound”).

There will be sweet sounds aplenty on today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network, which will come your way from the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, PA. On the program will be music by Jean Sibelius, Philippe Gaubert, Antonin Dvořák, Claude Debussy, and Leonard Bernstein, with two works by Philadelphia composers: Andrea Clearfield’s “Spirit Island” and Jennifer Higdon’s “American Canvas.”

“American Canvas” falls into three movements, each named for a different visual artist – Georgia O’Keefe, Jackson Pollock, and Andrew Wyeth. The Brandywine Museum, of course, houses an extensive collection of canvases painted by three generations of the Wyeth family.

“American Canvas” was composed on a commission from the Dolce Suono Ensemble with grants from the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia and the William Penn Foundation. The Dolce Suono Trio consists of flutist and artistic director Mimi Stillman, pianist Charles Abramovic, and cellist Nathan Vickery. Stillman will introduce each of the pieces from the Brandywine stage.

Dolce Suono’s next concert will explore the musical tastes of the Founding Fathers and the musical culture of Philadelphia around the founding of our nation. The ensemble will present “Music in the Second Capital” this Sunday at 3 p.m. at Old Pine St Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine Street, Philadelphia. For more information, look online at dolcesuono.com/events.

Following today’s Noontime Concert, stick around for a complete recording of the “Messa da Requiem” by Giuseppe Verdi, as we celebrate the Italian master’s 204th birthday. There will be sweet sounds aplenty, this Tuesday, from 12 to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.