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29-Year-Old Kedrick Armstrong Named Oakland Symphony Music Director

Armstrong is Oakland’s first music director since the unexpected death of Michael Morgan in 2021.

Associated PressMarch 16, 2020

Show goes on: DiDonato, Beczala sing opera from apartment

Associated PressMarch 13, 2020

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen dies at 81

Keegan MorrisMarch 11, 2020

Calculating Chopin: WFMT’s New Digital Series Demystifies Math and Music

Chopin’s last piano gets its 19th-century features back

Associated PressDecember 9, 2021

The last piano on which Frederic Chopin played and composed is being renovated by a U.S. expert who is giving it back its original mid-19th century characteristics.

Video: Mother-Son Duo Performs Schubert and Wieniawski Classics

WFMTDecember 9, 2021

Violinist Igor Pikayzen and pianist Tatyana Pikayzen perform two expressive, engaging fantasies.

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Larry Johnson, Host of WFMT’s ‘Arias and Songs’ Has Died at Age 72

Robbie EllisMarch 9, 2020

Larry Johnson, the host of WFMT’s Arias and Songs, died over the weekend in his home on Chicago’s North Side. He was 72 years old. He leaves behind a brother, Alan Johnson, and a cousin, Lynn Newhart. Larry had a business career in the textile industry but was always an avid music lover and record collector. He joined WFMT as ...

9 Works by Women Writers We Want to See Adapted into Operas

Anna GoldbeckMarch 9, 2020

We’re glad to see that in recent decades, more and more works by women writers have been given their due in the opera house. Here’s a look back at some of them, and a short list of works by women that we’re waiting to see operatically staged.

McCoy Tyner, iconic and influential jazz pianist, dies

Associated PressMarch 8, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — McCoy Tyner, the groundbreaking and influential jazz pianist and the last surviving member of the John Coltrane Quartet, has died at age 81. Tyner’s family confirmed the death in a statement released on social media Friday. No more details were provided. Tyner was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 11, 1938. He eventually met Coltrane and joined ...

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