At 4:00 EDT, we’ll remember Philadelphia violinist and conductor Luis Biava, who died yesterday at the age of 85.

We’ll hear two of Biava’s recordings, made with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Temple University Symphony Orchestra, respectively. Biava was a long-time faculty member at the Boyer College of Music and Dance – Temple University. Then toward the latter portion of the hour we’ll celebrate the birthday anniversaries of composer-arrangers Ferde Grofé and Richard Hayman.

In the 5:00 hour, we’ll blow out some more candles for composer Vincent d’Indy and cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, both also born on this date. As a special added bonus, we’ll hear a symphonic poem by the woman who destroyed Camille Saint-Saëns and César Franck’s friendship, Augusta Holmès.

At 6:00, on this week’s “Music from Marlboro,” the featured highlight will be Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor, the work into which Franck poured all his sublimated passion for Holmès, a fact which, unfortunately, was not lost on Saint-Saëns, who played the piano part at the work’s premiere in 1879.

Life is messy. Embrace the music, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.