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Quiz: Should These Opera Characters Be on the Naughty or Nice List?

We’ve made a list, now we’re checking it twice… can you help WFMT find out which of these opera characters can expect a nicely wrapped present… and which ones can expect coal?

Stephen RaskauskasDecember 1, 2017

This Video of the Von Trapps Singing ‘Edelweiss’ Will Be One of Your Favorite Things This Holiday Season

Karina KückingNovember 28, 2017

How Soprano Rosa Ponselle Went from the Small Town of Meriden, CT to the Metropolitan Opera

Stephen RaskauskasNovember 22, 2017

Quiz: Tell Us Your Ideal Thanksgiving Dinner, We’ll Tell You What Classical Music to Serve as a Side

Video: Pianist Taek Gi Lee Shares a Dynamic Recital of Beethoven and Liszt

Keegan MorrisFebruary 20, 2020

Pianist Taek Gi Lee, who hails from Seoul and studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, shared a sensitive performance of works by Beethoven and Liszt.

UK patient plays violin during unusual brain surgery

Associated PressFebruary 19, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Surgeons at King’s College Hospital in London have removed a brain tumor from a woman who played the violin during the procedure. Doctors for violinist Dagmar Turner, 53, mapped her brain before the surgery to identify areas that were active when she played the instrument and those responsible for controlling language and movement. Doctors then woke her ...

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“Only beauty with a capital ‘B’ can save the world,” Riccardo Muti Reminds High Schoolers

David PolkNovember 16, 2017

17 year-old Rebecca Vazquez said that hearing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform at Lane Tech College Prep High School, where she is a student, is a “a once in a lifetime opportunity.” The orchestra performed there on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, as part of its efforts to bring music to communities throughout Chicago.

How Do You Practice a Concerto Without an Orchestra? Pianist Kirill Gerstein Explains

Stephen RaskauskasNovember 16, 2017

Kirill Gerstein described the experience of performing as a soloist with a major orchestra like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as nothing short of “magical.” But how do you practice a concerto without an orchestra? Gerstein shares his tips.

Hear Kirill Gerstein Play Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 the Way Tchaikovsky Intended

Stephen RaskauskasNovember 15, 2017

Pianist Kirill Gerstein performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor the way the composer originally intended - a version not been heard in the United States since Tchaikovsky’s U.S. tour in 1891.

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