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“I always fall into South American rhythms, I don't know why." So said Stephen Sondheim of his wordplay and songwriting, the focus of this episode of KPAC's Momentos Musicales, examining the Latin influence on classical and popular music of America.

Still mostly isolated today, Cuba has a proud musical history that includes cross-cultural pollination with Asia and America. TPR's James Baker hosts this episode of Momentos Musicales on KPAC 88.3 FM.

Hear some beautiful melodies by Camille Saint-Saens, as performed live on KPAC 88.3 FM. Wolfgang Draving and Zachary Ridgway will be in concert this Sunday at 3 p.m. at Trinity Baptist Church.

If there were to be a "Great Americas Songbook," surely the music of João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim would be at the top of the list. KPAC's James Baker listens back in this Momentos Musicales segment to the sounds that swept America in the early 1960s.

James Baker traces the history of the rumba and other Latin rhythms in early Broadway musicals on this episode of "Momentos Musicales" our special series for Hispanic Heritage Month on KPAC 88.3 FM.

As part of our Momentos Musicales series, KPAC's James Baker looks at the way the Good Neighbor policy of the United States helped foster musical development in the 1940s that introduced Latin American music to the U.S.

SungEun Park and Martin Kesuma drove all the way down from San Marcos to visit with Barry Brake on KPAC's Classical Connections, and performed live on the radio. You can hear their beautiful music at the link!

If one wanted to draw a neatly pruned tree showing the progression of popular music in Brazil, it might begin with choro, transitioning over time into an array of dances, distinctly Brazilian. In this episode of "Momentos Musicales" KPAC's James Baker listens to the sound of the choro through the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Hear the San Antonio-based chamber ensemble Agarita perform Max Richter's rearrangement of Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' live in the beautifully resonant Chapel of the Incarnate Word.

Two Natalias bring new sounds to the Great Americas Songbook.