As federal offices lag behind on their observances of Veterans Day (which was yesterday, thank you very much), we’ll listen to works by American composers who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Join me in the 5:00 hour for music by Romeo Cascarino, Samuel Barber, William Grant Still, and a new release on Navona Records/PARMA Recordings by Samuel A. Livingston of The Blawenburg Band.

We’ll also mark the birthday, beginning at 4:00, of everyone’s favorite chemist-composer, Alexander Borodin, with some of his music, as well as that of his colleagues of the Mighty Handful, or the Russian Five.

Finally, we’ll remember Slovak soprano Lucia Popp on the anniversary of her birth.

It’s a late afternoon and early evening of musical and military veterans, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.