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Boston Symphony Orchestra taps Gail Samuel as 1st female CEO

The current president of the Hollywood Bowl and chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be the BSO’s eighth president overall.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting in moody, darkly lit photo

David Polk | May 12, 2015

Listen: Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Piece of Music that Changed His Life

WFMT | May 6, 2015

Star Soprano Kate Royal on the Joys and Difficulties of Singing Rare French Works

Candice Agree | May 5, 2015

Playlist: 5 Mexican Composers You Should Know

The Grant Park Music Festival at Millennium Park

Grant Park Music Festival Announces 2019 Season

Keegan Morris | January 8, 2019

The eighty-fifth annual season opens June 12 and will run through August 17, with most performances taking place at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

Friends of WFMT share their New Year’s Resolutions

Candice Agree | January 7, 2019

To close out out week of musical resolutions, let's hear what some friends of WFMT — musicians, artists, authors, and more — intend to focus on in 2019.

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WFMT’s Top 10 Reads on World Book Day

Stephen Raskauskas | April 23, 2015

Today is World Book Day, a yearly event celebrated worldwide on April 23rd and organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. Looking for a good read to celebrate World Book Day? We at WFMT have picked some of our favorite reads to share with you.

Julia Wolfe Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music

Stephen Raskauskas | April 20, 2015

Judges described Wolfe’s work, Anthracite Fields, as a “powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century.”

Guggenheim Fellow Rudresh Mahanthappa On Creating Music that Defies Genre

Stephen Raskauskas | April 10, 2015

To label Manhathappa's music simply as a fusion between Carnatic music and jazz would be reductive. If, anything, it represents "the beautiful multicultural state of affairs of the United States right now."

Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael