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Playlist: Classical Music for Reading

Whether you’re poring over a biography, traversing a novel, or perhaps writing something yourself, WFMT’s reading playlist is made to help you relax, focus, and get lost in literature.

Michael San GabinoSeptember 20, 2019

Video: ‘Get Out’ Composer Michael Abels Brings His Horror Score Into the Concert Hall

Associated PressSeptember 19, 2019

‘No path is easy’: Black opera singers detail struggles

Keegan MorrisSeptember 19, 2019

Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes on revisiting a beloved 150-year-old concerto to open the CSO season

Met Opera deal allows solo singer fees cut by up to 12.7%

Associated PressMay 27, 2021

The Metropolitan Opera would be able to cut the fees of its highest-paid individual singers by 12.7% under a pending four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists.

Video: Music of Romantic Masters Played Live By Duo Dotto-Cho

WFMTMay 26, 2021

The music of Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms somehow managed to make a lovely spring afternoon even better.

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Can video games bring new, younger audiences into classical music?

Greg BroderickSeptember 13, 2019

Video games don’t always conjure up images of a concert hall. Surveys show that 90% percent of teens play video games on a computer, game console, or phone. The numbers aren’t quite as high when you ask teens if they like classical music — a separate survey shows that classical music is the preferred genre of just about 4% of ...