Pulling Records from database after a certain date

[Nancy Tentzeras]

I have the following code that pulls all the records from the database by date and displays on a web page, I would like to only pull the records after 9/01/2003, any suggestions on how to modify the following code:

$select = "select * from programs";

$where = " where type='1' and (((MONTH(NOW()) = month and DAYOFMONTH(NOW()) >= day) or (MONTH(NOW()) > month)) and (YEAR(NOW()) = year) or (YEAR(NOW()) > year))";
$group = " order by year DESC, month DESC ,day DESC";

$dbg = database();

$db->query("$select $where $group" );

Any help is greatly appreciated.