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10 Composers Who Were Inspired by Their Travels

From Bolivia to Ghana to India to the US, the perspective-changing experience of travel influenced many of your favorite composers.

Associated PressJanuary 14, 2021

Delayed Kennedy Center Honors to be rescheduled for mid-May

Lisa FlynnJanuary 14, 2021

The Modern Musical Dynasty: Kanneh-Mason Family Performs Saint-Saëns, Bob Marley

WFMTJanuary 13, 2021

Video: Paula Kosower & Kuang-Hao Huang Play Nadia Boulanger, Debussy, Beethoven Live

Jon Batiste leaves Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show

Associated PressAugust 15, 2022

After winning multiple Grammys this year, Jon Batiste is moving on after a seven-year run backing up host Stephen Colbert as bandleader of “The Late Show”.

Video: Husband-Wife Duo Plays Brahms, Clarke, Tchaikovsky

WFMTAugust 5, 2022

Collaborators Matthew Cohen and Zhenni Li-Cohen perform a concert of music for viola and piano.

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Grammy Awards shift to March due to pandemic conditions

Associated PressJanuary 5, 2021

The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.

Claude Bolling, popular jazz-classical musician, dead at 90

Associated PressJanuary 2, 2021

The Cannes native was a professional musician by his teens and over the following decades would perform with everyone from Lionel Hampton to Yo-Yo Ma.

In Their Own Words: Quotes From Artists and Friends of WFMT Who Died in 2020

Candice AgreeDecember 30, 2020

2020 was a year of great loss for all; the music world was no exception. As we reflect on the year gone by, WFMT salutes the contributions of artists and friends who died this past year.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff