My colleague, David Osenberg, decided he really wanted to do today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network. I’m up against a couple of writing deadlines, so that’s fine by me. Dave will welcome Joan Kimball and Robert Wiemken, artistic co-directors of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band. Together, they will introduce a program titled “Sacred Winds: Music for a Spanish Band.”

Piffaro’s next series of concerts, featuring the award-winning chorus The Rose Ensemble, will take place Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, and Sunday at 3 p.m. at Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Wilmington, DE. More information is available at piffaro.org.

I’ll waltz in at around 2:00 today to share some new releases of music by Beethoven and Stephen Dodgson – composer (who, by the way, was a distant cousin of Lewis Carroll). Join Dave for Piffaro at noon, and yours truly from 2 to 4 p.m. EDT. We’ll have music from the Renaissance to the present, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.