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With Mother's Day celebrated this weekend, I thought it appropriate to take a look at musical mothers. Stories about Franz Joseph Haydn seem to always…

Ned Rorem, a Quaker from Chicago out of Richmond, Indiana, he of the exquisite choral music and art songs, he of the sexually explicit published diaries,…

James Levine, born seventy years ago in Cincinnati has been music director of the Metropolitan Opera for decades. He is recognized as one of the world's…

Now THAT'S a tough question. Â I suppose you could say the same piece of music can mean different things to different people, but that is a generic answer…

For many, Walt Disney's Fantasia set in motion a love for classical music by using their amazing animation artists to give the music a visual dimension.…

Beginning this evening, I'll be featuring the symphonies of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. For the rest of this week, we'll be hearing Nos. 1 through 4,…

ONE AUDIO PIECE A devoted listener contacted me recently to ask about the "theme music" for Musica Sacra, our Sunday night program of sacred choral music.…

Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93 was first performed in public in February of 1814 in Vienna. It didn't create quite the splash his sublime and…

The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 on the next Fretworks. In the liner notes to the 1996 Delos…

Dayton Hamvention, the world's largest amateur radio convention, brings approximately 25,000 attendees from all over the world. And the 65th annual...