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At the Soviet blasphemers of good taste, I thumb my Russian nose. What would it be like to live in a totalitarian state? Those of us who have enjoyed two…

Unless you happen to live in Buenos Aires, it's not every day a tango expert blows through town. The award-winning bandoneón virtuoso and composer…

What kind of musical thoughts were going through the mind of great Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the spring of 1866 as he started…

Central Ohio is a good place for young musicians. Several are featured on the next edition of From the Top, broadcast on Classical 101 Sundays at 7 p.m.…

Your cityscapes are such that one can hear big sky between cement notes. It is a delicious musical incongruity that Aaron Copland, the composer who better…

Take our folks songs and our hymns. We trust you are a noble alchemist. It's a little difficult to pin labels on Ralph Vaughan Williams. Was he a…

Your music visits a new key, and another, and yet another . . . If you've ever felt as though you're on a banana peel while listening to Richard Strauss'…

Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel has taken the classical music world by storm, beginning with exciting performances with youth…

You may remember a time in history when it seemed record companies ruled the musical world. Boxes and boxes of new releases would arrive at radio…

Olivier Messiaen, a French composer, organist and ornithologist (a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds), is on the program for this…