The universality of music — and of the arts in general — is an old theme. It comes up in my new Music for a While, here. This year is a “Ravel year.” The music world is marking the 150th anniversary of that composer’s birth. In Carnegie Hall, Seong-jin Cho played Ravel’s complete solo-piano music. The recital lasted about three hours, with two intermissions.

Cho was born in Seoul, in 1994. At 18, he moved to Paris, to study at the conservatory with Michel Béroff — a French pianist of Bulgarian parentage. Béroff is one of the great interpreters of French music; and so is his pupil, Cho, today.

Another great “French” pianist was Grant Johannesen, a Mormon from Salt Lake City. (He studied with the Frenchman Robert Casadesus, among others.)

In the new episode of my podcast, I also have a German-Romanian baritone (Konstantin Krimmel) singing a quintessentially English song (“Linda Lea,” by Ralph Vaughan Williams) with a Bulgarian pianist (Doriana Tchakarova).

And so on and so forth.

Anyway, I have a diverse menu of music, and a story or two to boot. If this floats your boat, your boat will be floated — again, here.