Roma Music is gypsy music. It’s also a party – a raucous, joyful, humorous and nearly uncontrollable party from Romania and Turkey – with perhaps a bit of the wonderfully and welcome bizarre added in.

This edition of “Hear the World” from Radio Netherlands offers excerpts from concerts by two groups living the Roma musical life: Fanfare Ciocarlia from Romania and clarinetist Hasan Yarimdunia from Turkey.

Fanfare Ciocarlia is clearly not your father’s high school band, or yours either, but they are a fun Romanian gypsy ride with winds and brass.

Hasan Yarimdunia, I think it’s fair to say, plays somewhat in the mode of the Eastern European Klezmer style, but with a distinctly Turkish flavor – often slower and more deliberate. Like Fanfare Ciocarla, the Turkish clarinetist’s music it’s all about joy, exuberance and the pure pleasure of playing highly spirited music. (Stay for the “scat” at 54:04, and the amazing percussion section that precedes it.)

Perfect for a blue Sunday or any other daypart where listeners are likely to appreciate a shot in the arm.

Promotion for the entire “Hear the World” series begins at 55:00 – the show’s producer says it’s okay to end the program before the promo segment begins.

Check out the wide list of varied performers and performances from the entire series here: http://www.prx.org/series/31581-hear-the-world.

Spoleto Chamber Music 2010 is in full swing on PRX with its new host, Lisa Simeone.

Program 3 from the series starts strong with Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov’s “Omaromar” – a remarkable work for solo cello played with absolute conviction and beauty by cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

A Telemann Viola Concerto receives an equally fine performance (nice audio engineering here and throughout), and the program concludes with violinist Chee-Yun playing Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9, the “Kreutzer” Sonata.

Consider this substantial 13-week chamber music series, with one of the country’s finest hosts, as a fitting way to treat and serve your listeners.

See the details on the entire series here: http://www.prx.org/series/31517-spoleto-chamber-music-series-2010.

Fans, fanatics, music critics and musicians gather in this tribute and discussion about the final album and accompanying film that documented the Beatles' recording, “Let it Be.”

Producer Paul Ingles and panel take us behind the scenes, take us inside the drama(s), tell a few wonderful, rich stories and bring more than a fan’s insight into the fall segment of the Beatles musical rise and fall. It’s not always pretty, but it’s a powerful look at the Beatles’ real world.

In addition to effectively merging the album’s musical, historical and background elements, producer Paul Ingles always manages to find and assemble panels of experts who don’t lecture, over-analyze or blather with grandeur – and the fans who do not fawn.

This tribute is thoroughly enjoyable, relevant and timely for the 40th anniversary of its release in May 1970. The music never sounded finer.