For the People of Ukraine: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9

Join us on March 10, when, in partnership with members of the European Broadcasting Union, WFMT airs a special broadcast promoting peace – a 2006 performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Listen to For the People of Ukraine: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Stories About UkraineIn one Ukrainian city, ballet in …

Lara Downes: My Life in Music

The trailblazing performer, recording artist, activist, arts advocate, and NPR host Lara Downes introduces a very personal playlist.

Music and Conversation with Mary Elizabeth Bowden

An interview with the entrepreneurial classical trumpeter, who has worked to establish new trumpet repertoire collaborations and commissions.

Black Music Spotlight (Week 5)

For the final selection of the month, hear an arrangement of the Black National Anthem: “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Black Music Spotlight (Week 4)

This week’s selections are by Shawn Okpebholo, Orbert Davis, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Omar Thomas, and Steve Wallace.

Music and Conversation with John Jeter

Oliver Camacho interviews the music director of Arkansas’s Fort Smith Symphony on Florence Price and how her music may be the key to diversifying the canon.

Black Music Spotlight (Week 3)

This week’s selections are by Jessie Montgomery, Julia Perry, Nathalie Joachim, Eleanor Alberga, and Dorothy Rudd Moore.

Scott Joplin’s ‘Treemonisha’

Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha is the story of a young freedwoman who faces persecution and danger because of her education. Though completed in 1911, the opera did not receive its first complete performance until 1972.

Ryan Opera Center: Rising Stars Concert 2022

The 2021/22 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble performs music of Jacques Offenbach and other Romantic-era French composers with members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra conducted by Enrique Mazzola.

Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Season Preview

George Preston sits down with Lyric Opera of Chicago general director, president, and CEO Anthony Freud and music director Enrique Mazzola to discuss next season’s offerings.

Black Music Spotlight (Week 2)

This week’s selections are by Joseph Bologne, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Edmond Dédé, Charles Lucien Lambert, and Jose Silvestre White Lafitte.

Chineke! at 2021 Proms

The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers.

Black Music Spotlight (Week 1)

This week’s selections are by William L. Dawson, Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, and Fela Sowande.

I, Too, Sing America: Music in the Life of Langston Hughes

WQXR’s Terrance McKnight hosts an hour-long special that celebrates the poetry and music of an icon of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes.

Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ Rediscovered

Grammy winners Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell team up with Spanish violin virtuoso Francisco Fullana for this joyous romp through the baroque countryside.

A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood

Host Terrance McKnight interweaves musical examples with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches and sermons to illustrate the powerful place that music held in his work.

Riccardo Muti: Reflections in Music and Conversation (Part 2)

Maestro Muti discusses his beginnings in music and his early relationship with Nino Rota, the music of Sergei Prokofiev, identifiable national sounds of orchestras, and the need to continue presenting new music.

Riccardo Muti: Reflections in Music and Conversation (Part 1)

Maestro Muti discusses his relationship with the CSO, how orchestras have changed over the decades, presenting opera in concert form, and the importance of returning to live performance after the pandemic.

Being Alive: WFMT Remembers Stephen Sondheim

Celebrating the great composer-lyricist of our time, Being Alive: WFMT Remembers Stephen Sondheim gathers up a wealth of Sondheim’s stage and screen creations to revisit… or discover.

Eastern Orthodox Christmas Music with Andrew Patner

A rebroadcast from WFMT’s late critic-at-large, in which he explores this lesser-known holiday repertory.

Folkstage: The Final New Year’s Eve Celebration

Highlights from the 2019 “Midnight Special” New Year’s Eve celebration, featuring John McCutcheon, Crys Matthews & Heather Mae, Shawna Caspi and Greg Greenway recorded in the Fay & Daniel Levin Studio.

New Year’s Day from Vienna

A beloved tradition. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic.

New Year’s Eve from the Berlin Philharmonic

Music director Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic and violinist Janine Jansen in a celebratory concert.

Christmas Around the World with Candice Agree (Week 2)

At 6:30 pm each weeknight for the weeks of December 20-24 and December 27-31, join Candice Agree for a world tour of Christmas music!

A Roaring Christmas with the BBC Singers

A festive celebration of the 1920s & 30s from the Barbican in London.

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