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Playlist: Music for All Souls Day

All Souls Day (November 2) is a day of prayer and remembrance for departed loved ones observed in many branches of Christianity.

Stephen RaskauskasAugust 8, 2017

Chicago Celebrates 50 Years of ‘Everyone’s Picasso’ with Music and More

Stephen RaskauskasAugust 4, 2017

Video: After Coming Out as Gay, This Russian Violinist Can’t Return Home. This Is How Music Helped Him Find Acceptance.

Hannah EdgarAugust 4, 2017

Quiz: Can You Guess Who Composed the Music Just by Looking at the Score?

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?

Decade in Review: The 2010s and Classical Music

WFMTJanuary 3, 2020

The 2010s were a tumultuous decade, replete with astounding artistic highlights, superlative new voices, and watershed moments of reckoning. WFMT hosts and staff reflect on what the past decade brought for classical music, and what the new decade may have in store.

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10 Composers Who Surprised Us With Their Hidden Talents

Hannah EdgarJuly 28, 2017

Though we tend to remember our favorite composers for their music first and foremost, many of them were virtuosic in more ways than one.

This Video Proves It’s Only a Matter of Time Before Robots Can Play Rachmaninoff

Angelica LasalaJuly 27, 2017

Anyone who’s ever studied a keyboard instrument knows it takes years of dedicated practice to play with accuracy. But one robot is programmed to bypass all of that, as shown in a video on Facebook.

Renaissance Composer Roy Henry Was Also a King – Historians Just Aren’t Sure Which One

Angelica LasalaJuly 24, 2017

One of the most important and complete collections of English sacred music, the Old Hall Manuscript, was compiled between 1415-1421. The volume contains two mass movements – Gloria and Sanctus – written under the name Roy Henry. Since “roy” translates loosely to “king” from Middle French, music historians agree that Roy Henry was an English king with a penchant for ...

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