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With the coming of the 20th century, a new national school of composition arose in Great Britain. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten…

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…

Cervantes wrote his novel Don Quixote in the early 1600s, and Georg Philipp Telemann and Richard Strauss both had something to say about it musically:…

At first Gustav Mahler was happy to be appointed Director of the Vienna Imperial Opera. After few seasons of dealing with hot-house-orchid singers,…

A launch failure of a Falcon 9 rocket occurred just after liftoff at 10:21 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Sunday. WFIT's Rick Glasby filed…

Hear the long time bassist for the Moody Blues, John Lodge talk with Christoph tonight on Christoph’s Vault at 7:00pm.John Lodge will discuss life with…

Space exploration, astronomy, cosmology and cosmogony: none of these were what Gustav Holst had in mind when he composed The Planets a little more than a…

Antonio Salieri didn't get a fair shake in the play, Amadeus, in which he is cast as the villain vis a vis his more illustrious contemporary, W. A.…

There's nothing quite like Florida in July, is there? Certainly William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is nothing like Florida in July, and…

Leonard Bernstein burst upon the scene at the age of twenty-five as an emergency fill-in conductor for a New York Philharmonic performance. He would…