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Right Place, Wrong Time: Connie Converse 100 Years Later

Revisiting the songwriter who disappeared soon after her 50th birthday.

Adela SkowronskiAugust 26, 2021

Quiz: Composer ABCs

WFMTAugust 26, 2021

Audiences to Return, Venue to Move for Weekly Hess Concerts

Associated PressAugust 25, 2021

Met Opera and orchestra reach deal, allowing season to start

Met Opera marks 1st year of Ukraine war with concert

Associated PressFebruary 27, 2023

“We demonstrate the free world’s ongoing cultural resolve to defend Ukraine’s liberty in the face of brutal oppression," said Met general manager Peter Gelb during intermission.

Seattle Opera puts story of Afghan women center stage

Associated PressFebruary 25, 2023

An opera based on the popular novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns," which is set in Afghanistan, is making its world debut in Seattle.

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Artist Icebreaker: Bass-baritone David Govertsen

Adela SkowronskiAugust 19, 2021

Is it luck? Preparation? Skill? David Govertsen thinks it's a little bit of each that has guided him to some of the city's biggest stages.

Carnegie Adjusts Program for Return, Adds Beethoven Cycle

Associated PressAugust 19, 2021

Carnegie Hall has changed the program for its return from the coronavirus shutdown and added a Beethoven cycle to the season with the Philadelphia Orchestra and music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Video: Beethoven, Debussy, Kodály, Strohl Performed at Chicago Cultural Center

Keegan MorrisAugust 19, 2021

In an impassioned hour of music, cellist Ben Solomonow and pianist Christopher Goodpasture played a wide-ranging selection of music from Ludwig van Beethoven to Rita Strohl.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff