At 4 o'clock our Musical Mystery Tour takes us (nearly) here. -- Rich

This is an important component of the 2pm installment of KUSC's Musical Mystery Tour. Tune in and take off! -Brian

In honor of the KUSC Musical Mystery Tour, a pictorial clue to the PLACE we're visiting a little after 10:00am PDT. --Alan

During our next stop on the KUSC Musical Mystery Tour, this morning at eight, be sure to stop in at the world's fourth largest library, established in 1862. Today it holds 44 million items in 247 languages. Out front is a statue of an author who, in his late 20s, was saved from a firing squad at the last minute. - DJ

As day one of our Musical Mystery Tour continues, at 4 o'clock we visit someplace that exports olive oil. Nothin' more. I said olive oil. Whaddayou lookin' at? Just olive oil. -- Rich

This place. 3:07pm on KUSC. -Brian

The KUSC Musical Mystery Tour is underway! So here's a pictorial clue to a PLACE we'll visit around 12:05pm PDT. --Alan

Of our first destination on the KUSC Musical Mystery tour (this morning at eight, Truman Capote said, "[It] is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go." But Thomas Mann called it "the flattering and suspect beauty - this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed." Below is John Singer Sargent's image of it. - DJ

Of our first destination on the KUSC Musical Mystery tour (this morning at 8), Truman Capote said, "[It] is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go." But Thomas Mann called it "the flattering and suspect beauty - this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed." Below is John Singer Sargent's image of it. - DJ

Remember this exotic creature from Avatar? Wait. That's not right. Got it... We'll be hearing both a Polka and a Fugue involving this particular instrument at quarter past five this afternoon (and it is so cool to hear it in the original 3D). -- Rich C.

Happy Father's Day...a couple of days early! Here's Dmitri Shostakovich with his kids Maxim and Galiana, ca. 1949. We'll hear THREE generations of Shostakoviches team up for a piano concerto, this afternoon ca. 3:40. -Brian

A pictorial clue to who's PERFORMING around 10:22am PDT. Those who have participated before may recall that in some cases certain details of the image may be irrelevant to the name in question. (Helpful, huh?) --Alan

This morning, fathers take a bow. Vivaldi's father taught him to play violin, Schubert's father gave him a general education, Holst's father got him to take up the trombone to improve his asthma, Johann Strauss I was father to the family dynasty, Mozart's father (well, Mozart's father...), and then there's Papa Bach. - DJ

We've got the musical equivalent of this coming up at 4:08. Wanna venture a guess? -- Rich C.

This mesmerizing photo was taken a couple of years ago at the Suzuki Method Grand Concert in Tokyo, but it's still awfully inspiring, no? And they say kids don't want to play classical music anymore. Here are 3,000 young ones who beg to differ. -Brian

A pictorial clue to who's PERFORMING around 9:53am PDT. --Alan

Not only is it safe for sheep to graze on the airwaves this morning, but the blacksmith is feeling harmonious, Romeo and Juliet have found a time for themselves, and students are free to dance. Just watch out for John Adams racing around in his fast machine - DJ

At 10 past 6 this afternoon we visit this land. I will never forget a visit there one summer - leaving a performance of an opera at 10:30 at night....and it was still sunny. Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony play it for us. -- Rich

Well, I suppose if you have to conduct Bolero, you might as well enjoy yourself. This is the ever-ebullient conductor Guido Mancusi from a performance at the Vienna Volksoper. -BrianThe dancing conductor No. 2 - Ravel's „Bolero"another view from the „reverse" side of the show. Maestro Guido Mancusi directing the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper during a ballet evening in April 2012...

A pictorial clue to who's PERFORMING around 9:37am PDT. Easier than yesterday's clue for sure. --Alan

A dance-filled morning today, including a Jester Dance by Tchaikovsky, an Hungarian Dance by Brahms, a suite of French dances by Bach, a Scottish Dance by Malcolm Arnold, some nighttime hissing of summer lawn dances by Mozart, and Carmen with her dances of fear and loathing at 8:35. - DJ

For those with long radio memories, it was the theme music for the long-running Luncheon at the Music Center. What is this music without the tinkling of glassware and cutlery? It comes up at 5:10 this afternoon. Bring a hearty appetite. -- Rich C.

Our friends across the pond at Classic FM have been having some fun with classical music and Google autocomplete. Hmm... --Brian LClassical music... according to Google autocompletewww.classicfm.comTurns out Google just doesn't get classical music...

Good morning, cluesters! This is the first pictorial clue that I have appeared in (yeah, on the left) and it is also (in my opinion) the most obtuse, ridiculous and unlikely-to-be-solved clue so far (especially since the name is not widely known). As usual, I invite you to prove me wrong. It's the PERFORMER appearing around 11:16am PDT. --Alan

This may be the only extant image of Richard Strauss smiling. But he was probably smiling after the premiere of Der Rosenkavalier, from which we'll hear a waltz sequence this morning at 7:50, on the anniversary of his birth. Strauss was born during the American Civil War, and lived to greet liberating American G.I.s during WWII on the porch of his home, where he identified himself as "the composer of Der Rosenkavalier".

Alert listener Jeff sent me this link over the weekend. If you are going to be stuck on the airport tarmac for hours on end, you might as well be in the company of members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.-- Rich C.Philadelphia Orchestra musicians perform on flight waiting on Beijing tarmac.When a group from The Philadelphia Orchestra found itself delayed on the tarmac for three hours waiting for their flight from Beijing to Macao as part of the...

If you were to head down to LAX today and purchase a plane ticket to Italy, it'd cost you no less than $1,920 (I checked). You could do the next best thing and travel to Italy with the music of Felix Mendelssohn. It's free...and boards at gate 3:35p. -Brian

Starting the week with a weird one. (I know -- they're all weird.) A pictorial clue to who's PERFORMING around 11:41am PDT. --Alan

We're yukking it up on the Morning Show today, with the Scapino Comedy Overture by Walton and The Comedians of Kabalevsky. But also, Aida laughs (and dances) in the face of disaster, Rameau laughs with surprise in the face of love, and Don Giovanni laughs his awful misogynistic laugh. Plus, Nathaniel Rosen with A Few Words at 8:15 and a performance of Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso. - DJ (Ha ha!)

Tonight's LA Phil concert broadcast is a good one: John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and featuring mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor in the title role and the fabulous Los Angeles Master Chorale. 7p on KUSC. (Full cast here:-Brian

Bizet's Children's Games, which we'll play this afternoon at 5:15, includes a trumpet and drum, a doll, a top, a little husband and a little wife, and a ball. What children's game/toy would you add to Bizet's charming masterpiece? Slinky? Teddy Bear? - DJ

Johann Sebastian & Carl Philipp Emanuel & Johann Christian & Wilhelm Friedemann & Johann Christoph Friedrich Happy Father's Day!

Who was the coolest dad of all the Great Composers? It would have to be Bach, not because he fathered 20 children, but because he provided the elementary education for his own kids, and even changed jobs and moved the family to a new city (Leipzig) in large part because he wanted his children to get a better higher education. That's cool! Hear a Prelude & Fugue by Bach at 3:50 this afternoon, preceded by music from his last son, Johann Christian. - DJ