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Giuseppe Verdi turns 200 this October. He died in 1901. Here are a few seconds from his funeral, as the cortege leaves the Milan Cathedral and passes by…

Experimentation has brought the world wonderful things - light bulbs, automobiles, airplanes, the ability to deep fry an entire turkey. Ok, maybe the…

If you think Wagner's operas were too long and feared you might fall asleep in the middle of Die Meistersinger, how about an eight hour lullaby? As…

The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan 70 years ago today. To begin the hour on Symphony @ 7 this evening on Classical 101, I have a short…

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti surpassed a space endurance record for a female spacefarer.

Edge of Reason is an art exhibition and it features works on paper, canvas and found materials which explore issues of American nostalgia in dissonance ...

Verona, Padua, Elsinore...Dakar. Shakespeare's plays were originally set all over Europe, and a new production by the Royal Shakespeare Company is moving…

Jesse Owens amazed crowds at the 1936 Olympics by single-handedly proving that Hitler's idea of Aryan supremacy was incorrect. Join us on this hour of…

The California Air Resources Board was recording with an infrared camera as the methane leak on the outskirts of LA was finally controlled Thursday. The leak still needs to be permanently capped.

Anytime someone utters the words Classical Music, the image most have is some guy in a powdered wig with a dour expression writing music in the 18th…