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Thanksgiving feast spread with lots of side dishes

8 Musical Side Dishes

Equally satisfying as the main course, these shorter works can round out your musical diet with different textures, flavors, and colors.

Keegan MorrisSeptember 16, 2021

Jamie Barton: Opera Must “embrace the move towards feminine power”

WFMTSeptember 16, 2021

Watch WFMT’s Classical Conversation With ‘Approaching Ali’ Composer D. J. Sparr and Star Soloman Howard

Keegan MorrisSeptember 16, 2021

Behind the Scenes: Artists Share & Sing at Rehearsals for Haymarket’s ‘Orlando’

Chaim Topol, Israeli actor known for Fiddler’s Tevye, dies

Associated PressMarch 9, 2023

The role of his life arrived in the long-running musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” in which he played Tevye.

Classical Music Aerial Adventure: Winter in Chicago

WFMTMarch 2, 2023

With spellbinding aerial footage of Chicago, you'll hear acclaimed artists playing wonderful, wintry classical music.

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George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95

Associated PressSeptember 14, 2021

One of the great impresarios of 20th-century music has died.

Met’s 9/11 Anniversary: Music Can Help Mend Wounds of 20 Years Ago and Today

Keegan MorrisSeptember 11, 2021

Matthew Polenzani, one of the artists performing at the Met's Verdi Requiem commemorative concerts on the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, reflects on why music can help us heal.

Artist Icebreaker: Pianist Lara Downes

Adela SkowronskiSeptember 7, 2021

Ahead of her appearance at Ravinia this week, we sat down to talk with Lara Downes about her efforts to broaden the classical canon, her first introduction to Black composers like Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, and why she loves to work with Rachel Barton Pine.

Collectors' Corner with Henry Fogel