La-dee-dah, dee-dah-dee-dum, ‘tis Autumn. Now somebody please tell the weather!

Unfortunately, we all know the drill by now. 90 degrees at the equinox, things cool down somewhat, we put on a sweater, and then it’s back to 110 for Hallowe’en. It makes me long for the days when I would defy my mother so as not to have to wear a coat over my costume.

I hope you’ll join me today on The Classical Network, as I continue to highlight music by women composers – in this month of the Clara Schumann bicentennial – even as I rail against nature with selections to mark the change of season by Cécile Chaminade, Fanny Mendelssohn, Imogen Holst, and Peggy Stuart Coolidge.

I’ll also celebrate the birthday anniversaries of William Levi Dawson, Alexander Arutiunian, and Robert Helps, and offer a musical remembrance of Christopher Rouse, who died on Friday at the age of 70.

The playlist will be as variegated as an enticing pile of leaves. I’ll be munching on Spiced Wafers and making like Nat King Cole, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM 89.1 FM the Classical Network and wwfm.org.