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It's a program of French Ancients and Moderns this week in the attic.We'll go back to some of the oldest music we have, written a millennium ago and…

By the turn of the 20th century, Gustav Mahler was readily acknowledged as one of the world’s great conductors, but as a composer, he didn’t find such…

They say politics makes strange bedfellows.Well sometimes music makes strange politics -- or maybe it just takes a few decades to sort itself out. The…

Two years after being kicked out of the Salzburg Cathedral – literally, "with a kick to the arse" – Mozart returned to his hometown to debut his new Mass…

As a young composer and piano virtuoso, Beethoven had established himself in his new home, Vienna, the cultural capitol of central Europe. Here he would…

You can get the recipe for Mama Stamberg's cranberry sauce by listening to any NPR station, but only WFIT will tell you how to make Nathalie Irene's…

Counts and archdukes may have been pretty important fellows in their day, but who would now remember Andrey Razumovsky, Ferdinand von Waldstein, or…

Arcangelo Corelli didn't leave us with a great body of music, but several other composers of the Baroque took notice of his concerti. Francois Couperin…

Jean Sibelius was Finland's hero-composer. They even put his picture on the currency. But after a seventh symphony in 1924, he called it quits, producing…

The color of your skin will likely effect how you will be treated during a traffic stop, at a restaurant, and in a courtroom.The social scientist Robert…