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Playlist: Classical Music for Travel

WFMT brings you a “musical getaway,” whether you’re enjoying the comfort of your cushiest armchair or exploring somewhere new!

WFMTJanuary 21, 2016

Barbara Gaines, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Artistic Director, Shares Her Favorite Theater Music

Stephen RaskauskasJanuary 20, 2016

Why Vijay Iyer, DownBeat’s Jazz Artist of the Year, Doesn’t Like the Word ‘Jazz’

Associated PressJanuary 19, 2016

Tech at the symphony: Boston orchestra loaning patrons iPads

Hit the Road With These 3 Classical Music Road Trips You Can Take From Chicago

Kerry FrumkinJuly 18, 2019

It's just a fact: road trips are better when live music is the destination!

Playlist: The Greats of British Classical Music

Maggie RebergJuly 18, 2019

Some of the most beautiful music ever composed originates from or was inspired by the British Isles. Weekend morning program host Maggie Clennon Reberg and Introductions host and producer Michael San Gabino have selected some of their favorites in this great British playlist!

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Blair Tindall, Author of ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ on Her Best-Selling Book and the Hit TV Series

Michael San GabinoJanuary 11, 2016

Blair Tindall’s Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music shocked readers when it exposed some of the low points of high culture.

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Did You Know Philip Glass Wrote Music Inspired by David Bowie?

Stephen RaskauskasJanuary 11, 2016

David Bowie, who passed away January 10, 2016 at age 69, inspired artists in every medium over the decades. Philip Glass is one of them: his Symphony No. 1 “Low,” composed in 1992, is based on Bowie’s album, Low, and his Symphony No. 4 “Heroes” is based on Bowie’s Heroes.

Sono Osato, 96, Reflects on Dancing With the Ballet Russes

Stephen RaskauskasJanuary 8, 2016

“I think I am one of the few American dancers who ever saw the Diaghilev ballet at the peak of its glory,” Sono Osato begins her autobiography Distant Dances. At the ripe age of 14, Osato became the first American dancer to join the Ballet Russes de Monte-Carlo, derived from Diaghilev’s famous Ballets Russes. With the company, she toured the ...

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