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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…

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…

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…

Many an attic has a box labeled "Christmas Stuff," and Mozart's is no exception.This Sunday we'll have some holiday music for you that doesn't include…

We're in the midst of the cycle of the six numbered Tchaikovsky symphonies, and this week brings us to Symphony No. 3, one of the seldom performed and…

As a composer for the musical comedy stage as we’ll as for the concert hall, George Gershwin was a towering figure in American music of the…

We look at some of the lighter music associated with Vienna in the 19th century this week: works of Johann Strauss, the Waltz KIng; Franz von Suppe, the…