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Terence Blanchard just became the first Black composer to premiere an original opera at The Metropolitan Opera. Fire Shut Up in My Bones—an adaptation of New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s bestselling memoir about childhood trauma and its layered emotional fallout—opened the Met’s 2021-2022 season.

Grammy-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux, who grew up listening to modern jazz, pop, and alternative rock, has become one of today’s classical music stars.

Ernest Chausson's Poeme de l'amour et de la mer is a 19th-century song cycle about love, loss, and the sea and illustrates the way music and poetry can move us.

Sicilian cellist and composer Alessio Pianelli takes us on a fascinating journey as A Sicilian Traveller through the folk music of many lands, as interpreted by the well-curated program of composers on our Classical Album of the Week.

Colette Maze, now 107, began playing the piano at age 5. She defied the social conventions of her era to embrace music as a profession rather than as a pastime. She has just released her sixth album.

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the Charles M. Blow memoir of the same title, is the first work by a Black composer to be staged by the Metropolitan Opera.

A critical genetic link between ragtime and bebop, Erroll Garner was one of the most stylistically distinct jazz pianists of the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. Beloved by audiences and revered by fellow musicians, Garner’s accomplishments transcended his art. But, for better or worse, he was most associated with one, single word.

An instrument dating from ancient times, the flute turned out to be the ideal voice to express what was in the heart and mind of composer Samuel Jones. Here's the story of his Flute Concerto, premiered in 2018 by The Philadelphia Orchestra.

One of the most beloved and exciting works in the orchestral repertoire is The Planets by Gustav Holst. But the way we hear it now is not the form in…

On Sunday, September 26th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and on Monday, September 27th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2, listen to a 2018 program that traces an arc from Schubert to Brahms, by way of a World Premiere performance of Samuel Jones’s Flute Concerto, written for—and played by—Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Flute Jeffrey Khaner.