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

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

Associated PressSeptember 28, 2021

Met returns with 1st work by a Black composer in its history

Keegan MorrisSeptember 23, 2021

Muti Extends With CSO, Will Stay as Music Director Through 2023

Keegan MorrisSeptember 21, 2021

Beats & Boxing: How Music Adds Power to Ken Burns’s ‘Muhammad Ali’

Nicholas Lloyd Webber, son of famed composer, dies at 43

Associated PressMarch 27, 2023

The Grammy-nominated composer, record producer and eldest son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died Saturday in England after a protracted battle with gastric cancer and pneumonia.

The striking Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh stands apart, against a slightly cloudy sky, on the University of Pittsburgh campus

Pioneer of gospel music rediscovered in Pittsburgh archives

Associated PressMarch 22, 2023

Charles Henry Pace was one of the first African American gospel music composers in the US and owned of one of the first independent, Black gospel music publishing companies.

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

WFMTSeptember 16, 2021

Ali was among the most important, most charismatic, most unique figures in American (not just sports) history. So how do you adapt the monumental life of the People's Champion into an opera?

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

Keegan MorrisSeptember 16, 2021

WFMT host LaRob K. Rafael visited Haymarket rehearsals, hearing musical rehearsal highlights and talking with two of the production's stars: countertenor Bejun Mehta and mezzo-soprano Emily Fons.

Van Zweden to leave New York Philharmonic after 2023-24

Associated PressSeptember 15, 2021

After six years as music director, van Zweden's will be the shortest tenure of anyone in a half-century.

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