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American Pianist, Tearing It Up
Sean Chen Recital, Friday at 8:00 PM After a year-long competition sponsored by the American Pianists Association, five finalists remained; the final phase of the Indianapolis-based competition was broadcast on WFMT in the fall. LA-native Sean Chen took the highest award. Friday’s edition of Music in Chicago presents a recital with Sean Chen. Listen to more... more...
New York Philharmonic: American Music Central
As has so often been the case, New York City is a well-spring for so much of American culture. It is the birth place of the likes of George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Kern. Since its founding in 1842, the New York Philharmonic has been central to America's musical life: they gave the first performance of Dvorak's New World more...
Preview: La clemenza di Tito
[Live broadcast on Wednesday at 7:15 PM] Clemenza is the story of the benevolent Roman Emperor Titus. Like the Mozart character, the historical Titus struggled over whether or not to pardon a friend and traitor. The historical Titus did have a Romance with the Jewish queen Berenice who had sided with the Romans in their war against the Jews. That's where the action of this opera begins more...
On the Air with Music of the Spheres
In the year 1977 NASA launched two unmanned spacecraft, space probes programmed to survey the solar system, timed to take advantage of a rare alignment of the planets. Knowing the probes would continue their trajectories indefinitely, NASA scientists elected to place time capsules within the probes more...
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Roller Coasters of Emotion, but Keeping a Tight Grip
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center explored extremes of emotion in works by Dvorak, Schumann and Dohnanyi.
Musicians Old and Young, Experienced and Not, Join a Global Play-In
For the revived Worldwide Music Play-In, classical musicians of all levels and all ages from the five boroughs joined players around the globe.
Art of Variations, Beethoven to Berio
Classical music in New York is full of tough choices.
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All Day Immersion Seminar: Master Piano Trios with the Lincoln Trio
All Day Immersion Seminar: Leonard Bernstein--A Musical Giant with Bill McGlaughlin
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Join Carl Grapentine in London next spring!
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