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Team picked to make ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ into stage musical

Dates for future productions, as well as additional creative team members and cast, will be announced in 2023.

Angelica LasalaAugust 18, 2017

Hear These Uncovered Piano Masterworks from Haiti

Angelica LasalaAugust 16, 2017

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

Hannah EdgarAugust 14, 2017

After Gathering Dust for 200 Years, How Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 Was Rediscovered

Hildur Guðnadóttir makes history at Globes, Elton John wins

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2020

“Joker” composer Hildur Guðnadóttir made history by becoming the first woman in 19 years to win best original score at the Golden Globes. Guðnadóttir was the sole female nominee.

Video: Rachel Barton Pine, Daughter Sylvia Pine Help Launch WFMT’s New Family Request Program

Keegan MorrisJanuary 3, 2020

What better way to inaugurate a program celebrating music for kids and families than by inviting a very musical family to perform — violinist Rachel Barton Pine and her 8-year-old daughter Sylvia Pine?

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The Secrets to Heavenly Singing from Peter Phillips, Conductor and Founder of the Tallis Scholars

Stephen RaskauskasAugust 10, 2017

"A choir is like any instrument. But because it's people, a choir is an instrument that varies far more than a string orchestra would vary, for example, or an organ."

Help Us Decide if Chopin’s ‘Marche Funèbre’ Played Backwards Is More Morose Than the Original

Angelica LasalaAugust 9, 2017

The third movement of Frédéric Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 35 – better known as his “Marche funèbre,” or funeral march – is one of the most iconic pieces of music ever written about death. Historians believe this somber movement was inspired, at least in part, by the November Uprising, a Polish rebellion against the Russian ...

9 New Concert Halls That Should Be on Every Traveler’s Bucket List

Galilee AbdullahAugust 8, 2017

Concert halls today are so architecturally innovative that the buildings themselves draw visitors. The venues on this list are so spectacular, they’ll be sure to have you checking to see just how many more vacation days you have left.

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