I’ve got the engine purring on the Classic Ross Amico interview machine.

Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network for a chat with composer Victoria Bond. Bond’s new opera, “Clara,” inspired by the life of Clara Schumann, will be performed at Symphony Space in New York City, this Friday at 7 p.m. A second performance will follow in Rhinebeck, NY, on Sunday at 3.

I’ll talk with Bond at 4:00 today. We’ll get to hear a selection from the opera, as well as music from her latest release, “Instruments of Revelation,” on the Naxos label.

Then at 5:00, violinist Stefan Jackiw will tell us about his exciting Ives recital, with pianist Jeremy Denk, that will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium tomorrow night at 8. The program will include not only all four violin sonatas of Charles Ives, but also demonstrations – with the help of Princeton University Glee Club – of some of the hymns, songs and marches to which the composer alludes.

Following our conversation, we’ll get to hear Jackiw and pianist Max Levinson perform, on their album of the complete Brahms’ violin sonatas, issued on Sony Classical.

At 6:00, it’s “Music from Marlboro,” and a salute to pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski. We’ll hear performances of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Ildebrando Pizzetti, captured at the legendary Marlboro Music Festival.

Along the way, we’ll also celebrate Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, and march king John Philip Sousa on their birthdays.

Experience music from Bach to Bond, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.