Stories

Video: James Conlon & Johnny Gandelsman Reflect on Music of the Holocaust

WFMT interviews conductor James Conlon, a tireless advocate for composers silenced by the Nazi regime, and musician Johnny Gandelsman, who produced the soundtrack to ‘The US and the Holocaust.’

Angelica LasalaApril 25, 2017

Video: You’ll Go Bananas for This DIY Keyboard

Stephen RaskauskasApril 21, 2017

Playlist: 10 Shakespeare-Inspired Operas You Should Know

Stephen RaskauskasApril 21, 2017

“Difficult, But Worth It”: Singers Share Their Secrets to Memorizing Opera Scores by Philip Glass

Video: Ahead of Chicago Premiere, An Excerpt From Rachmaninoff’s ‘Aleko’

Keegan MorrisNovember 15, 2019

Two operatic opus ones will have their Chicago premieres this weekend, and they both command a chorus of well over 100. Chicago Opera Theater opens its 2019-20 season with a double bill: Joby Talbot's Everest and Rachmaninoff's Aleko.

This Animated Video Explains Why Mozart Was One of the Best Procrastinators

Michael San GabinoNovember 15, 2019

"Mozart led a hectic life — he was basically an overcommitted freelancer,” says Josh Davidoff, program coordinator at 92nd Street Y in New York.

Playlists

See All

Make Music Day festival is coming to dozens of US cities

Associated PressApril 17, 2017

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 50 U.S. cities will be hosting Make Music Day, a free one-day outdoor festival celebrating music and music-making. The annual event is June 21, the summer solstice. Highlights of Make Music Day in the U.S. will include Sousapaloozas in Chicago; Cleveland; Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis-St. Paul; New York; and San Jose, California. Part of Make ...

This Split Screen Performance of Bach’s St. John Passion is the Most Metal Thing You’ll Hear All Day

Maggie RebergApril 14, 2017

What’s more metal than Bach’s driving bass line, chromatic suspensions, and florid inner voices?

Video: Pianist Vassily Primakov Plays Chopin and Rachmaninoff

Stephen RaskauskasApril 13, 2017

The Pregnant Buffalo Lounge, a subterranean space at the Chopin Theatre was home to the second WFMT Cabaret.

Mornings with Jan Weller