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A Fond Farewell to Kerry Frumkin: A Vital Voice for WFMT

“Music was always my love. And if I wasn’t going to be able to make music myself, I was going to make sure to be a good and informed listener. The importance was being able to share what I love with other people.”

Photo portrait of new CSO music director Klaus Mäkelä, in a dark blue suit and black shirt, with a half smile

Keegan MorrisApril 2, 2024

CSO Names Klaus Mäkelä as Music Director

Keegan MorrisMarch 29, 2024

Jamie Barton on Growing as an Artist and Verdi’s Timeless Juggernaut

A picture of violins or fiddles hanging in a luthier shop, with the middle orange-brown colored violin in sharp focus.

Adela SkowronskiMarch 27, 2024

What Makes a Fiddle?

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In Their Own Words: Remembering Those Who Died in 2024

Candice AgreeJanuary 2, 2025

WFMT remembers those who died in 2024: those we know from our community and those we never met, but who spoke to us through their work.

Classical Countdown: New Year’s Eve Music to Strike the Perfect Note at Midnight

Keegan Morris

Curated celebratory classical music, and the exact second to press play so the music crescendos with the changing of the New Year.

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In one Ukrainian city, ballet in a bomb shelter is an escape from the horrors of war

Associated PressMarch 22, 2024

Practicing in a bomb shelter means the girls can keeping dancing through the almost hourly air raid alerts.

Julian Rhee smiles wearing red eyeglasses and black tee shirt swhile holding a violin

Julian Rhee and Balourdet Quartet Among Avery Fisher Career Grant Winners

Keegan MorrisMarch 21, 2024

Plus, the first percussion ensemble to receive this prestigious career grant.

Oil painting portrait of Marin Marais, French composer. He is a white man with a round face, wearing a long, curly, off-white wig that falls to his shoulders. He is dressed in a golden coat, and is holding a viola da gamba horizontally across his lap, as if he's about to strum the instrument.

Rare Collection of Flute Music Thrills Early Music World

Adela SkowronskiMarch 21, 2024

The 600-page collection could mark the biggest discovery of flute repertoire in 25 years.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff