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Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday is coming up, and we’ve got 335 candles on the cake as we celebrate with an all-Bach program this Sunday.

Voting continues Wednesday for you to decide the top political story of the year. After the first round of voting, there are 32 stories left with some big match ups ahead.

"The office of the presidency — the most powerful position in the world — brings with it many awesome and solemn responsibilities," President Obama said. "This is not one of them." He gave an official pardon to save Popcorn the turkey from a Thanksgiving dinner table.

Nobody remembers poor old Count Kaiserling anymore. In 1741, so the story goes, he hired J.S. Bach to write some bedtime music for his harpsichordist, one…

We've been exploring some of the less-well-known works of Antonin Dvorak and Edvard Grieg on Mozart's Attic recently: something akin to a summer reading…

Anja Conklin will be interviewed at WFIT 89.5 FM at 6:00pm by Java John Goldacker to talk about and play a couple of her original songs. Right after,…

In 1955, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Reiner, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra set out to record the Brahms Violin Concerto in D major. RCA engineers made two…

We’re continuing our series of the Beethoven piano sonatas as we approach his 250th birthday later this year, and this week we’ll also hear a little…

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky completed six numbered symphonies, and while three of them are mainstays of the classical repertoire, the other three are far…

The Carnival of the Animals is usually presented these days as an entertainment for children, complete with narration, the same idea as Peter and the…