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Musically, it might be the richest time of the year.Musicians -- classical and otherwise -- seem to go all out for the Christmas season, and we'll have a…

If Frosty and Rudolph and the Twelve Days are starting to get to you, it's not your imagination. After weeks of hearing the Christmas "standards" at every…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.Paris in the last half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries went through three major wars,…

The Renaissance gave us lots of religious and ceremonial music intended to uplift the spirit.This week we ignore all of that and focus on the banquet…

We begin with two musical tribute pieces this week that could hardly be more different in tone, but are nonetheless related through the use of old Baroque…

It wasn't that long ago -- 1911 -- that the race to be first to the South Pole was underway by expedition parties under Raold Amundsen for Norway and…

Bach's Christmas Oratorio is nothing like Handel's Messiah. Handel wrote a concert piece, intended for stage performance. Bach, on the other hand,…

Just as the Salon traditionalists scorned the Impressionist painters, the French musical academicians were contemptuous of the musical impressionists. The…

We're going to focus on music of the 20th century this week. We'll look at ten composers, representing a tremendous variety of styles and points of view,…

We begin this week with some arias by Giuseppe Verdi in recordings both new and more than a century old.From 19th century Italy, we go to 20th century…