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Vote for Tchaikovsky’s Top 10 Works

Help WFMT create a definitive ranking of the music of masterful Romantic composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Keegan MorrisJanuary 10, 2020

Video: Some Sublime Schubert from Duo Tal & Groethuysen

Louise FrankJanuary 8, 2020

Anna Moffo: 4 Videos that Spotlight the Brilliance of ‘La Bellissima’

Andi LamoreauxJanuary 7, 2020

Grant Park Music Festival Announces 2020 Season

Cleveland Orchestra to get $50M grant from Mandel Foundation

Associated PressSeptember 30, 2021

The grant amounts to the largest gift in the orchestra's 103-year history.

After 52 Years at WFMT, Music Director Andi Lamoreaux To Retire

Keegan MorrisSeptember 29, 2021

Andi Lamoreaux will retire on October 1, 2021, a remarkable and virtually unprecedented 52 years after arriving at the station. We sat down with her to find out what the future holds.

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Decade in Review: The 2010s and Classical Music

WFMTJanuary 3, 2020

The 2010s were a tumultuous decade, replete with astounding artistic highlights, superlative new voices, and watershed moments of reckoning. WFMT hosts and staff reflect on what the past decade brought for classical music, and what the new decade may have in store.

Saturday: WFMT to Premiere Two New Programs for Kids and Families

Keegan MorrisJanuary 2, 2020

Saturday Morning Listener's Choice kicks off on January 4 with guests Rachel Barton Pine and daughter Sylvia, who give us their picks in the premiere episode

German opera director Harry Kupfer dies at 84

Associated PressDecember 31, 2019

Harry Kupfer, the longtime opera director of Berlin's Komische Oper, has died at the age of 84. Kupfer's management agency says he died Monday “after lengthy illness” in Berlin.

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