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Video: Watch A French Flute Recital by Yukie Ota and Yoko Yamada-Selvaggio

If French music (or flute music) is your thing, click here! In a June Dame Myra Hess Concert, Yukie Ota, flute, and Yoko Yamada-Selvaggio shared two lesser-known French pieces.

Galilee Abdullah | May 12, 2017

This Video of Pianist Oscar Peterson Tearing It Up While John Williams Conducts Will Give You Life

Stephen Raskauskas | May 11, 2017

Yo-Yo Ma, Civic Musicians to Present Benefit ‘Concert for Peace’ at St. Sabina Church

Stephen Raskauskas | May 9, 2017

Pulitzer-Winning Librettist Mark Campbell Explains How to Write an Opera

David Bromberg fears huge violin collection must be split up

Associated Press | July 11, 2019

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — David Bromberg, a master of stringed-instrument Americana, says a deal to sell his massive collection of historic violins to the Library of Congress has fallen through. The singer-songwriter and session musician has compiled a collection of 263 historic American violins over the years, and at 73, was hoping to sell it intact for $1.7 million as ...

Violinist Aaron Rosand dies at 92

Keegan Morris | July 11, 2019

Violinist Aaron Rosand has died at the age of 92. Rosand was born in 1927 just outside of Chicago in Hammond, Indiana, and at age ten, the lauded virtuoso made his orchestral debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Best known for his interpretations of Romantic works (self-billed as the “Last Romantic”), Rosand studied with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music at the beginning of what would become a more than 70-year playing career.

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Conductor, MacArthur ‘Genius’ Marin Alsop Explains Why There Aren’t More Women on the Podiums

Stephen Raskauskas | May 8, 2017

Marin Alsop is a woman of many firsts; she spoke to WFMT about how she’s inspired young women, why there aren't more women on the podiums, and more.

This Waltz Once Attributed to Strauss Is Actually by Indigenous Mexican Composer Juventino Rosas

Stephen Raskauskas | May 5, 2017

Perhaps the next time you hear a waltz, you'll think Mexico City instead of Vienna.

How Lydia Mendoza, the First Queen of Tejano Music, Crossed Borders and Shaped a Tradition

Angelica Lasala | May 5, 2017

Decades before fans called Selena Quintanilla-Pérez the Queen of Tejano music, singer and 12-string guitarist Lydia Mendoza held the crown as Tejano music’s first female icon. Born in 1916 to parents who migrated to Texas during the Mexican Revolution, Mendoza began her music career in a family band that performed on street corners and in open-air markets to make ends ...

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