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Wynton Marsalis joins forces with Michigan Marching Band

“I’ve never seen a jazz band like ours play with a marching band, where the actual music we’re playing is integrated into the music the band is playing,” Marsalis said.

Carl GrapentineAugust 24, 2017

“I Remember Lenny” | On Bernstein’s 99th Birthday, Carl Grapentine Reflects on the Man and His Music

Galilee AbdullahAugust 23, 2017

This Gorgeous Piano Nocturne by Chopin Might Be Even Better Arranged for Violin

Angelica LasalaAugust 23, 2017

Video: Watch This Young Pianist Play Ridiculously Hard Works by Chopin… Blindfolded!

Sharon Isbin walks down a cobblestone road with a guitar case

Sharon Isbin Revisits Spain, Italy, and Her Accidental Beginnings in Guitar

WFMTJanuary 13, 2020

A self-described “science kid,” a simple miscommunication prompted Sharon Isbin to take up the guitar in her youth.

Video: Some Sublime Schubert from Duo Tal & Groethuysen

Keegan MorrisJanuary 10, 2020

Ahead of the esteemed duo's performance at UChicago Presents, Tal & Groethuysen, who first joined forces in 1985, visited WFMT for an Impromptu of piano four-hands music by Mozart, Schubert, Louis Théodore Gouvy.

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This Breakdance Duet to Chopin’s ‘Fantaisie-Impromptu’ Will Send You Spinning

Angelica LasalaAugust 22, 2017

When Frédéric Chopin composed his Fantaisie-Impromptu, he probably didn’t expect for the work to serve as the music for a breakdance duet. But at Arabesque 2014, an international ballet competition hosted by the Perm Ballet Opera Theatre, one entry in the “modern choreography” category used Fantaisie-Impromptu for just that purpose. Fantaisie-Impromptu was written in 1834, but it wasn’t published until ...

Hear These Uncovered Piano Masterworks from Haiti

Angelica LasalaAugust 18, 2017

Haitian composer Ludovic Lamothe has been nicknamed the “Black Chopin” because of his virtuosic writing for the piano. Lamothe is scarcely the only composer from Haiti to compose incredible keyboard works. For centuries, Haitian composers have brought African, French, and Spanish influences together to create pieces – particularly for piano – that reflect the island nation’s cultural identity. Many of ...

Hear Astor Piazzolla’s Tango Take on Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’

Angelica LasalaAugust 16, 2017

Unlike Vivaldi’s concertos, Piazzolla’s Four Seasons wasn’t originally intended to be a series.

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