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We begin an hour of English music this Thursday with a historical recording of Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music, a piece with lyrics by Shakespeare,…

Unrequited love, jealousy, drugs, dreams of murder and witchcraft: it sounds like the plot of some gothic opera.But it's not, it's the aptly-named…

There's a great celebration in the musical world this month. August 25th is the hundred-year anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, a unique…

The six Bach Suites are mainstays of the literature for unaccompanied cello. Yo-Yo Ma recorded them as a young aspiring artist in his twenties, again in…

Beethoven enjoyed the countryside, away from the hustle and bustle of Vienna. Communicating with people had become difficult for him, but not so with…

Classical music nearly lost it in the 20th century.The serialism and atonality that was embraced by many composers, musicians, and academics was beyond…

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

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony wasn't an immediate success. The critics largely panned it, like they did the First Piano and Violin Concerti. But time was…

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…

“Playing the sounds that make your heart pound with the beat that moves your feet,” WFIT-FM will groove to the music on Doo-Wop Soul & Rock'N'Roll hosted…