Don’t let the Italian surname fool you; my mother’s people came from Ireland. My own sensibilities tend more toward the Northern climes than to the Mediterranean. And I could be quite happy on a steady diet of praties and Guinness.

This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” green is the new black. I hope you’ll join me, if only virtually, in anticipating St. Patrick’s Day, with music from, and in celebration of, the Emerald Isle. We’ll hear works by Irish composers John Larchet, Philip Hammond, Howard Ferguson, and A.J. Potter, and works on Celtic themes by Percy Grainger, Sir Arnold Bax, and John Foulds.

That’s “The Sharing of the Green.” It will be all Guinness and no Corona, this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.