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I've said before that Western music has never recovered from Wagner. He reinvented the tonal language. His use of chromaticism produced an opera Tristan…

Columbus mayoral candidate Bill Todd is suing the Columbus city schools and state department of education. He claims the city school system and the Ohio…

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…

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,…

Music lovers are all too familiar with the word prodigy. Â Mozart qualified, certainly, as did Mendelssohn. Â Pianist Martha Argerich made her orchestral…

Happy Halloween from Classical101! Friday, October 31st's on-air ghoulish playlist features diabolical dances, demonic quadrilles, and suites from a few…

If you had a pulse anywhere in the world from roughly 1860-1910 you could not have avoided the play, Camille. This is the story of a Parisian courtesan,…

You've known for a long time that engaging with classical music makes you smarter. Now there's evidence that playing a musical instrument can make you…