Stories
Mandolin music of Italy, Iberia, and the Black Sea in Song of the Birds, and orchestral music by women composers in Breaking Waves. And albums focusing on works by Florence Price, Valentin Silvestrov, and Georg Philipp Telemann.
March 4, 2025
Album-length explorations of works by Chicago's Shawn E. Okpebholo, pianist-composer Stephen Hough, as well as the 20th-century master William Walton and Romantic era great Robert Schumann.
Adela SkowronskiMarch 3, 2025
Among the composer's lesser known works are pieces inspired by ticking clocks, talking animals, and Madagascar folk songs!
Playlists
WFMTAugust 6, 2024
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a master of melody. Across musical forms the Russian composer's works exquisitely harness the power of each instrument involved.
Keegan MorrisAugust 5, 2024
“Chicago has been a fiddle town for a long time now,” reflects Sam Kunkel, a luthier in residence at A440.
Keegan MorrisJuly 31, 2024
The appointee has served as executive director and CEO of the Houston Symphony since 2018.













