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For Richard Strauss, the bigger the orchestra, the better. From a concert last March in Hamburg, Germany, we're hear Eiji Oue (AY-jee OH-way) lead the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the Dance of the Seven Veils from the opera "Salome" (SAH-loh-may) by Strauss. (North German Radio/EBU)

Bernstein Legacy: Another call to enter PT's new contest. To mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Leonard Bernstein on October 14th, our Bernstein Legacy Contest asks listeners to describe in 40 words or fewer how Bernstein influenced their appreciation of music. Send postcards to Bernstein Legacy, Performance Today, NPR, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001. To enter by e-mail, complete the form on the Performance Today Web Site, www.npr.org/programs/pt. All entries must include name, address and daytime phone number. The grand prize is "Bernstein Live," a new collection of 10 CDs from the New York Philharmonic. First, second and third prizes will be selections from Sony Classical's "Bernstein Century" series of CDs. Winners will be selected in a drawing to be held on PT on October 13th. Full contest description and rules are posted on the Performance Today Website.

Bernstein Legacy Contest: To mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Leonard Bernstein on October 14th, we announce a new contest in which we ask listeners to describe in 40 words or fewer how Bernstein influenced their appreciation of music. Send postcards to Bernstein Legacy, Performance Today, NPR, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001. To enter by e-mail, complete the form on the Performance Today Web site. Go to www.npr.org. On the "Programs" menu, scroll down to NPR's Performance Today. All entries must include name, address and daytime phone number. The grand prize is the new "Bernstein Live" edition of 10 CDs from the New York Philharmonic. First, second and third prizes will be selections from Sony Classical's "Bernstein Century" series of CDs. A drawing for the winner will be held on October 13th. Full contest description and rules will be posted on the Performance Today Web site.

Conductor Bohdan Warchal and the Slovak Chamber Orchestra perform the Symphony No. 2 in A-major by Johann Stamitz. Recorded in concert last June in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Musicale 2000. (Bavarian Radio/EBU)

French flute: From a concert in June at the European Musicale Festival in Germany, we're going to hear flutist Philippe Bernold (fee-leep bair-NOHLD), violist Jacques Deprecq (zhahk day-PREK), and harpist Xavier de Maistre (hah-vee-yay day meye-STRAY) in a performance of the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp by Claude Debussy (klohd deb-yoo-SEE). (Bavarian Radio/EBU)

Barge Music: From a concert on June 29th at the Kissinger Summer Festival in Bad Kissingen, Germany, we're going to hear the New Bach Music Collegium of Leipzig perform the Water Music Suite in G major by George Frideric Handel. (Bavarian Radio/EBU) 13:00 French pianist and composer Robert Casadesus (roh-bair kah-sah-deh-SOO) performs "Jeux d'Eau" (zhoo DOH) by his Maurice Ravel. (Sony Classical MH2K 63316)

Martin Goldsmith joins Bonnie this hour for a musical journey through his new book "The Inextinguishable Symphony: A Story of Music and True Love in Nazi Germany." (Norton) Martin's parents met while they were in an orchestra, performing the "Pathetique" Symphony No. 4 by Tchaikovsky. We'll hear the slow movement, with Yuri Temirkanov conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. (RCA 09026-61377-2)

Cape Cod Winds: The Sylvan Winds perform the Wind Quintet in G minor by Paul Taffanel. recorded in concert on August 11th at the Cape and Island Music Festival in Massachusetts. (Sounds Dynamics Associates)

The Slovak Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Bohdan Warchal, performs Antonin Dvorak's String Serenade in E major. Recorded in concert in June 2000 in Munich, Germany, as part of this year's European Musicale. (Bavarian Radio/EBU)

Hungarian Peasant Music care of Bela Bartok: From a concert at this summer's European Musicale 2000 in Munich, Germany, we'll hear the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra play an arrangement of Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Suite. (Bavarian Radio/EBU)