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Video: Pianist Hyejin Cho Plays Robert Schumann, Cécile Chaminade

See pianist Hyejin Cho wow audiences with charismatic performances of works by Robert Schumann and Cécile Chaminade.

WFMT | November 21, 2018

Playlist: Leonard Slatkin’s 10 Forgotten American Masterpieces

Associated Press | November 17, 2018

Concert pianist, Marian Anderson protege Burton-Lyles dies

Hannah Schiller | November 16, 2018

Playlist: 10 Latvian Composers You Should Know

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

Anna Goldbeck | March 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 Press | March 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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Ignacy Jan Paderewski addresses a crowd (Source: Library of Congress)

Meet the pianist and statesman who helped secure Poland’s independence

Keegan Morris | November 14, 2018

Few other star concert pianists can boast that they fought for — and helped win — their country’s independence.

Aaron Copland appeared on "John Callaway Interviews" on WTTW on September 14, 1981.

VIDEO | Aaron Copland appears on WTTW’s “John Callaway Interviews” in 1981