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New Orleans musician offers kids trumpets for guns

Shamarr Allen tells news agencies that he has a 9-year-old son and started the project last week, the day after a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed. He says the trumpet changed his life.

Stephen Raskauskas | September 23, 2015

Video | Justice Ginsburg on the Death Penalty and Opera

Stephen Raskauskas | September 21, 2015

Video | 5 Operas the Notorious RBG Wants You to Know

WFMT | September 16, 2015

RIP Jim White, WFMT Chief Engineer

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic to Make Ravinia Festival Debut in July 2019

Keegan Morris | November 12, 2018

Yankovic stops in the Chicago area on a new tour that features a full orchestra.

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6 of the Most Famous Classical Music Feuds Between Composers

Hannah Edgar | November 7, 2018

The history of music is full of friendships and feuds. These composers certainly had complicated relationships. What are your favorite composer clashes?

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Why Composer Max Richter Wants To Put You to Sleep

Stephen Raskauskas | August 20, 2015

Composer Max Richter wants people to doze off during his latest composition, SLEEP, which he calls an “8-hour lullaby.”

Kent Nagano’s ‘Violent Shift from the Status Quo’

Michael San Gabino | August 17, 2015

This idea of hearing something new in live music underscores Nagano's overall outlook of the concert experience.

Singer Omara Portuondo on the Buena Vista Social Club’s Farewell Tour

WFMT | August 12, 2015

Señora Portuondo, one of the greatest singers of our time, spoke with WFMT about Buena Vista’s goodbye tour, relations between the U.S. and Cuba, and the power music has to bring people together.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff