April 15th falls on a Sunday this year – which means we can procrastinate on filing income tax for an additional 48 hours! (Monday is Emancipation Day in Washington, DC, so nothing is due until Tuesday.)

Even so, we’ll try to get a leg up, this Sunday morning on WPRB, as we’ll be scrolling paper into the adding machine and dreaming of a fat return to the accompaniment of music about wealth and penury, found and lost money, precious metals, careless spending, treasures sought, currency and coins, and good old fashioned tax protest.

Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry in protest of exorbitant taxation. On the other side of the coin, when told that the people had no bread, Marie-Antoinette is alleged to have uttered, “Let them eat cake!” Both will be represented musically, with works by Vítězslav Novák and Franz Joseph Haydn.

We’ll seek treasure with Franz Schreker. We’ll look with sardonic befuddlement upon “The Age of Gold” with Dmitri Shostakovich. Antonio Salieri will show us what it is like to be rich for a day. Beethoven will rage over a lost penny. Franz Lehár will shower us with gold and silver. We’ll gaze with envy upon Kurt Atterberg’s “Dollar” Symphony.

Of course, there will be music from “The Threepenny Opera,” by Kurt Weill. We’ll also hear Weill sing his own song, “Very, Very, Very,” from “One Touch of Venus,” which begins, “One way to be very wealthy is to be very, very, very rich…” Sound advice, and very, very, very true.

We’ll be dumping tea into the harbor and preparing the tar and feathers, this Sunday morning from 7 to 10 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. There will be no tax on your patience, when listening to Classic Ross Amico.