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  • The special effects in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's music helped forge a new cutting-edge style.
    Calculated Instability: The Pioneering Sonatas Of C.P.E. Bach
    British pianist Danny Driver uncovers the impetuous mood swings, curious key changes and whiplash stops and starts that define C.P.E. Bach's leading-edge style.
  • Nina Simone (left) and actress Zoe Saldana are seen in this composite image. Saldana has been cast to play the late singer in a film biopic.
    Controversial Casting For A Nina Simone Biopic
    The producer of an upcoming Nina Simone biopic has cast Afro-Latina actress Zoe Saldana in the lead role — a move that's proved controversial. Critics say that while Saldana is a talented actress, she's too close to traditional light-skinned Hollywood beauty standards.
  • Pianist Seymour Lipkin: Still Scaling Artistic Heights
    The Philadelphia Inquirer's ’s David Patrick Stearns profiles Seymour Lipkin, a pianist who - in his mid 80s - is taking on Beethoven's massive…
  • Composer Max Richter's new album takes on Vivaldi's <em>F</em>o<em>ur Seasons</em>.
    Max Richter Recomposes 'The Four Seasons'
    The composer has done a brave thing for any artist in any medium: He's messed with a classic, specifically, Vivaldi's most famous four violin concertos. Richter says he had "to figure out how much Max and how much Vivaldi there was going on at every moment."
  • President Nixon pardons a turkey in 1969. There's quite a celebratory banquet scene in the John Adams opera, <em>Nixon in China</em>.
    'Don Giovanni' To 'Nixon In China': Holiday Feasts In Opera
    As you prepare to feast upon cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and your choice of entree this Thanksgiving, there's also an operatic feast to be had. Classical commentator Miles Hoffman joins NPR's Renee Montagne to take us through a five-course meal.
  • As a young classical composer, Missy Mazzoli borrows music and business strategies from the indie rock world.
    Missy Mazzoli: A New Opera And New Attitude For Classical Music
    The young composer from Brooklyn battles stereotypes in classical music with her DIY aesthetic, her penchant for blending genres, and her new opera, Song from the Uproar, based on the early 20th-century adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt.
  • Lonely Motel on Now is The Time
    It’s the composer/electric guitarist Steven Mackey on Now is the Time, Sunday, November 25th at 10 pm. Performed by eighth blackbird, Lonely Motel: Music…
  • The Basie Alumni on Big Band Jazz, December 2nd at 7pm
    The Basie Band produced a number of sidemen and arrangers who later went on to lead their own big bands. This week you'll hear some of these well-known…
  • The Lambreaux family meets with New Orleans city planners concerning a national jazz center.
    'Treme' Ep. 31: To Call It Quits
    As season three winds to a close, many regular guests of the show play a few numbers. Read a recap of the soundtrack, featuring Shamarr Allen, Cheeky Blakk, Kermit Ruffins, Jill Sobule, Big Sam, Tom McDermott, Ivan Neville, Trombone Shorty and Bonerama.
  • Celebrate The Festival of Lights: Dec. 10th, 7 to 11 pm on HD-2
    WRTI brings you four hours of beautiful music for Hanukkah this Monday night. At 7 pm, it's Hanukkah In Story & Song, sung by The Western Wind Vocal…
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