Stories
On May 10, 2022, WFMT General Manager George Preston welcomed Ryan Opera Center performers Lunga Eric Hallam, tenor, and Chris Reynolds, pianist; along with ROC director Dan Novak, for an hour of conversation and music.
Keegan MorrisDecember 4, 2018
Hannah SchillerDecember 3, 2018
Stacy GerardApril 14, 2020
With beautiful images and stunning dancing, this video reminds us that not everyone engages with music the same way.
Becky NystedtApril 13, 2020
This prismatic NPR Tiny Desk Concert will challenge your view of what making music means in the digital age.
Playlists
Larry JohnsonNovember 28, 2018
In 1970, Montserrat Caballé was in only the fifth year of her international career and was, without doubt, one of the greatest voices to be heard in opera.
Associated PressNovember 27, 2018
DETROIT (AP) — Patricia Hall went to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in 2016 hoping to learn more about the music performed by prisoners in World War II death camps. The University of Michigan music theory professor heard there were manuscripts, but she was “completely thrown” by what she found in the card catalogs: Unexpectedly upbeat and popular songs titles that translated ...
Associated PressNovember 25, 2018
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – The only grand piano in the Gaza Strip has been played in public for the first time in a decade, following a complicated international restoration effort to fix the instrument after it was nearly destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. Some 300 fans attended the performance on Sunday, staring in awed silence as Japanese and ...