To mark Giving Tuesday, The Classical Network will salute a number of non-profit organizations that continue to make a difference in our community. WWFM hosts will conduct brief interviews throughout the day, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with representatives of the following: SAVE, A Friend to Homeless Animals (10:30 a.m.), Joan Dancy & PALS – People with ALS Foundation (11:30 a.m.), TASK – Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (2:15 p.m.), Princeton Senior Resource Center – PSRC (3:15 p.m.), HomeFront – Helping Families Break the Cycle of Poverty (4 p.m.), Trenton Music Makers (5 p.m.), and Good Grief, Inc. – Putting the GOOD in GRIEF (6 p.m.). Tune in to learn more and to see how you, too, can lend a hand.

Of course, we’ll also enjoy ample helpings of great music along the way, including a Noontime Concert from Concerts on the Slope. “Voices of Latin America” will feature “Á Tres Voces” by Cuban-born composer Tania León (who is Slopes’ composer-in-residence) and “Fuego de ángel” by Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra. Also on the program will be the Symphony No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven – a composer who had very strong notions about the brotherhood of man – in a rarely-heard version for piano trio. Concerts on the Slope is a chamber music series presented at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.

Following the broadcast concert and between interviews, I’ll be peppering my playlist with music of love, thanks, and concern for our fellow human beings, including Beethoven’s “Bundeslied,” Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s “Ode to Joy” (yes, you read that correctly), Aaron Copland’s “The Promise of Living,” and Alan Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 11 “All Men Are Brothers.”

Music is the gift that keeps on giving, from 12 to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.