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After their 1920s Berlin hit, the Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborated one last time with another entertainment, The Rise and Fall…

Schubert's final symphony, the Great C major, was another one of those works that he was never to hear performed. There was no one to finance a concert,…

In a long career, Arturo Toscanini played cello under Giuseppe Verdi's baton at La Scala and conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the age of high…

Felix Mendelssohn, one of music's great prodigies, wrote a dozen chamber symphonies for string orchestra beginning when he was twelve. At fourteen he…

In 1892, Antonin Dvorak, rapidly becoming the toast of Europe, accepted the director’s post at a New York conservatory. The school – totally integrated…

Although we'll be running a few decades ahead of Charles Dickens, we have A Tale of Two Cities of our own this week as we look at musical entertainment in…

Near the denouement of the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced a cultural thaw, allowing some degree of freedom of expression among…

In 1929, Herbert Hoover was the newly-inaugurated President of the United States. Erich Maria Remarque published All Quiet on the Western Front, and Walt…

How’s your love life? Stevie Ray Vaughn can answer that question. Are you a victim of unrequited love? Perhaps you need Derek and the Dominoes. Do you…

Here are out top 10 albums for 2018 in no particular order..War & Treaty - Healing Tidehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NewN2Mw2b78Box Scaggs - Out Of The…