As we look back on WFMT's 70th birthday, we sit down with George Preston and Oliver Camacho to discuss the commemorative celebration and their plans to kickstart the next 70 years of WFMT.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, is taking a four-week sabbatical from conducting after a busy autumn and ahead of a challenging second half of the season.
From DiDonato's New York City living room, the pair performed excerpts of Massenet's 'Werther' for nearly 90 minutes that were streamed live on DiDonato's Facebook and Instagram pages.
Wuorinen won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music for 'Time’s Encomium,' a four-channel work for synthesized sound that became the first electronic composition to earn the honor.
“Contrary to popular myth," Dr. Eugenia Cheng explains, "math is not just about numbers, but about patterns, structures, and logic, and patterns and structures also pervade classical music.”
