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Even with just a few notes, the harpsichord’s distinctive twang can take you back to the days when J.S. Bach was jamming out on the instrument like a rock…

Many musical performances are good; far fewer are great. What makes a performance good or great? Let's explore this question with two recent recordings of…

Classical music radio listeners in Minnesota and around the country got a bit of sad news recently. John Zech, morning host on Minnesota Public Radio and…

“Too much of a good thing is wonderful,” Mae West said.Even I wasn’t around when West immortalized that line in 1932. Even so, it’s a motto of mine, for…

The year is 1941. War is raging in Europe.Here on the home front, Leonard Bernstein is 23 years old, a student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music…

Beethoven changed the course of music with his mighty nine symphonies. What would happen to music — and to the world — if the manuscript of a 10th…

His career spanned nearly eight decades and took him to the world’s most prestigious concert halls. His list of collaborators reads like a Who’s Who of…

History, that capricious dispenser of fate, remembers some people well, others not so well and still others not at all. The same is true for musical works…

Had Notre Dame Cathedral actually burned to the ground in yesterday's devastating fire, we would have lost one of the architectural wonders of the Western…

“I think of her as the Beyoncé of the Baroque.”That’s Early Interval soprano Elizabeth McConnaughey’s take on Barbara Strozzi, a woman who, centuries ago,…