Is it too much to hope for a brisk March?

We’ll put the early spring into our step, this afternoon on The Classical Network, and enliven your Friday with a program in 4/4 time.

An all-march afternoon? That’s the fact, Jack!

Marches for band. Symphonic marches. Light music marches. Marches for piano. Marches for string quartet. Funeral marches. Coronation marches. Circus marches.

Fear not, it won’t be all march-or-die, an incessant barrage of three-minute quick marches in 4/4 time. Some of the marches will be embedded in larger works. Some of the works will merely suggest marches.

There will be plenty of time for you to do your warm-ups, during today’s Noontime Concert, as Lenape Chamber Ensemble will perform works by Beethoven (the String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 4), Charles Ives (the Violin Sonata No. 2), and Camille Saint-Saëns (the Piano Trio No. 2).

The next Lenape program will take place this weekend, presented on two concerts, tonight at 8:15 p.m. at Upper Tinicum Lutheran Church in Upper Black Eddy, PA, and Sunday at 3 p.m. at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown. Lenape musicians will perform Franz Schubert’s “Rosamunde” Quartet, Carl Reinecke’s “Undine” Sonata,” and Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor. For more information, look online at http://www.lenapechamberensemble.org.

Then join me for Beethoven, Ives, and Saint-Saëns, followed by an afternoon of March madness, this Friday from 12 to 6 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.