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CLASSICAL 101 BY REQUEST begins tomorrow at 1 PM! Our listeners have always delighted me, especially since I now have a venue to hear from more of you…

Vivaldi, Bach and Handel, most of us know pretty well, but how about Francesco Geminiani? This fine Italian Baroque composer and violinist was born on…

For its mid-season fundraiser, the Columbus Guitar Society will present James Marron, a guitarist and composer, this Saturday (Jan. 19th) at 8pm. As with…

The Italian conductor Ricardo Chailly is 60 years old today. He was born in Milan in 1953 and got an auspicious start in his chosen career when he…

Recently on Fretworks, we featured Andrew York, who was a long-time member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. This week we have Scott Tennant of the same…

At one time, Felix Mendelssohn and Richard Wagner were friends - kind of in an Odd Couple sort of way. Wagner would complain about someone's conducting,…

Modest Mussorgsky was born on this date in 1839. He was one of the group of Russian composers known as "The Five," or "The Mighty Handful," who were…

Here is the first of what we hope will be a regular feature on the new Classical 101 website: a roundup of some top classical music stories we've been…

Many classical concerts begin with a stern admonishment to silence your cellphones and previous attempts to work technology like Twitter into classical…

With just hours to go before the polls open and with the race for president here in Ohio seemingly tied, volunteers for both campaigns are going all out…