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Remember when your folks kept encouraging you to try new (and sometimes weird-looking) foods, saying, "How do you know you don't like it if you haven't…

If you've read anything about composers such as Mozart or Beethoven, you know that they were prodigious improvisors. Can you imagine going to a…

For most of us, musicians are people whom we see on stage as they perform music. Â What goes on behind the scenes most of us never see. In this case,…

El Sistema was founded in 1975 by Jose Antonio Abreu, a musician, economist and former cabinet minister.   Mr. Abreu used music to pull hundreds of…

When Johann Sebastian Bach joined the choir at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, it was already 475 years old. Â Now, the choir celebrates its 800th birthday…

Most of us probably imagine "classical" composers immersing themselves in a daily diet of the masters...Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Stravinsky, etc. You can…

Seriously, it's one thing to be called Carmen, or La traviata, or Die Walkure, but what's up with an opera called Harold? Find out Saturday at 1:30 pm on…

Two weeks ago I manned the Classical 101 table at Picnic with the Pops in its new digs, Columbus Commons. I had been unimpressed by the move from the…

Mark Vanhoenacker is a writer living in New York who recently declared - "Classical music in America is dead." After reading Mr. Vanhoenacker's article, I…

It must be spring at last, since the Columbus Symphony Chorus is at the Ohio Theater this weekend to sing Mozart's Requiem with the CSO. Ronald J. Jenkins…