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In the Philadelphia Orchestra trumpeter's slightly twisted world, bears play bass trombones, Liszt has a brother named Bukhett and snowblowers can be filed as musical instrument deductions.

The new Dallas Opera production is a meta-story about the value — and cost — of great art.

Every great piece of music has a story behind it. Telling those stories and performing those works has become an all-consuming career and a popular…

Critics and opera lovers alike think that this is the TOSCA to own. It's the Metropolitan Opera broadcast from April 7, 1962, and we're bringing it to you…

Emmy-winning television journalist Soledad O’Brien hosts the 2015 Marian Anderson Awards honoring acclaimed jazz performer, producer, and educator Wynton…

Hill may be a rising star of jazz trumpet, but it took a village of mentors, peers and other opportunities to enable him to grow. So Jazz Night went to Chicago to find out where he came from.

With minutely detailed instructions from Kiev-born composer Valentin Silvestrov, a British pianist probes the heart of melancholy in music that appears light but weighs heavy.

Even without Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland might still be considered the greatest American composer. WRTI’s Kile Smith thinks that the key to Aaron…

The pianist and saxophonist was a frequent collaborator with Charles Mingus and Maynard Ferguson.

A Philadelphia Orchestra musician has gained a national audience for a hobby that’s not based on sound. WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston has more.Trumpeter…