I hope you’ll be able to join me for today’s noontime concert on WWFM, when the focus will be on new music for the new year. The program will feature works by young Jewish American composers, which were presented at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in NYC on November 2. Included will be “Fünf Kleine Klavierstücke,” by Princeton native Lainie Fefferman, and “Meditation,” by Alyssa Weinberg, who is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at Princeton University.

Then stick around for Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1, subtitled “Winter Daydreams,” and Sir Arnold Bax’s “Winter Legends,” written for his mistress, the alluring Jewish pianist Harriet Cohen.

Lots of alluring music today, between 12 and 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Harriet Cohen, who inspired and enticed a number of Britain’s greatest composers