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Classical Music Aerial Adventure: Winter in Chicago

With spellbinding aerial footage of Chicago, you’ll hear acclaimed artists playing wonderful, wintry classical music.

Michael San GabinoJune 29, 2018

At Northwestern University, soprano Renée Fleming tells graduates to “find your voice,” “get out there and use it”

Kerry FrumkinJune 29, 2018

The science and the magic behind recording live classical concerts

David PolkJune 26, 2018

How LA’s Street Symphony is bringing music and social justice to Skid Row

Take In the Gleaming Tones of Multi-Instrumentalist & Composer Ólafur Arnalds

Becky NystedtApril 13, 2020

This prismatic NPR Tiny Desk Concert will challenge your view of what making music means in the digital age.

Playlist: Classical Music for Easter Sunday

Keegan MorrisApril 11, 2020

Looking for the perfect accompaniment for your Easter Sunday? We've got you covered with this playlist with everything from Bach to Irving Berlin.

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President and CEO of League of American Orchestras on the state of American orchestras, need to diversify

David PolkJune 18, 2018

WFMT Program Director David Polk discussed efforts of orchestras in the U.S. to diversify, as well as the state of American orchestras more generally, with League of American Orchestras President and CEO Jesse Rosen

Joyce DiDonato: “Without the Arts… Children May Turn To Anger and Violence”

Stephen RaskauskasJune 15, 2018

DiDonato partnered with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute and dozens of other artists to bring the arts to young people at a crucial stage in their development: infancy. After asking, “Wouldn’t it be beautiful if every new born child was not only given a lullaby when they leave the hospital, but a personal one from their parents?” The Lullaby Project was born.

Romanian drama: the mayor, the soprano and the champion

Associated PressJune 14, 2018

Romania is gripped by a political soap opera featuring French Open tennis champion Simona Halep, a world-famous soprano, and the mayor of Bucharest.

Mornings with Jan Weller