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Quiz: How Well Do You Know Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Life and Times?

Composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff lived at the crossroads of continents, centuries, and cultures. How well do you know the strange and changing times Rachmaninoff lived in?

Louise FrankOctober 24, 2018

Corky Siegel: “The Future Is an Unopened Present”

Michael San GabinoOctober 24, 2018

$3.5 Million Grant Launches Initiative to Diversify the Next Generation of Musicians

Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra

Associated PressOctober 24, 2018

Cleveland Orchestra fires 2 musicians over sexual misconduct

This Chicago Program is Helping Young Musicians of Color Break Barriers. Here’s How to Audition.

Keegan MorrisJuly 1, 2020

In arts and music, there's an important — but sometimes overlooked — facet of diversity that needs to be addressed: not just of the people in the audience, but also of the people onstage.

Remembering Don Mueller

Joshua SauvageauJune 30, 2020

The name Don Mueller may not have been well known to all listeners, but WFMT's former director of operations was indispensible in his 30 years at the station.

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Joffrey’s ‘Swan Lake’ Launches a New Season of Ballet and Music

Keegan MorrisOctober 20, 2018

Joffrey Ballet's artistic director, Ashley Wheater, and music director, Scott Speck, discuss "Swan Lake," Joffrey's 2018-19 season, and ballet's unique and rich creative relationship with music.

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers takes a ‘spiritual journey’

Lisa FlynnOctober 19, 2018

Anne Akiko Meyers is one of today’s most in-demand violinists who keeps alive the favorites of the repertoire but also is deeply committed to the music of living composers.

Meet Missy Mazzoli, the CSO’s New Composer-in-Residence

Michael San GabinoOctober 19, 2018

Missy Mazzoli is a composer who is inspired by “weird stories,” and that’s a good thing. Her fascination with “humans who support, undermine, and love each other” has paved the way for opportunities in nearly every realm of the music industry. She is one of two women composers commissioned to write an opera for the Metropolitan Opera in New York ...

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff