Purely by chance (well, also because I happen to like the music), our first hour on The Classical Network this afternoon will be all-English, as we celebrate the birthdays today of Frederick Delius and Havergal Brian. Along the way, we’ll also take a trip to a butterfly’s ball and enjoy a grasshopper’s dance.

In Hour No. 2, we’ll celebrate the anniversaries of the births of Danish composer Ludolf Nielsen, French operatic master Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, and Chinese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin.

It will be an all-French program, avec piano, on “Music from Marlboro,” with chamber music by Francis Poulenc and Gabriel Fauré, from the legendary Marlboro Music Festival, tonight at 6.

Pull up a chair or cut a rug. It’s not just be the butterflies and grasshoppers who’ll be having a ball, from 4 to 6 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.