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RCA Magic Key broadcasts were heard over the RCA Blue Network from 1935 to 1939. The program originated from what is now the Ed Sullivan Theater in New…

I had never heard of jazz singer Jimmy Scott until I happened upon his obituary a few days ago. Scott died on June 12, 2014 at the age of 88. The next…

Years ago the great pundit Gore Vidal was asked by Johnny Carson, "What would you give Nancy Reagan for her birthday? "I would give Nancy Reagan…

On his trip from Paris back home to Salzburg in late 1778, Mozart journeyed through Mannheim and Kaysersheim to Munich, the new home of the soprano…

Tenor Rolando Villazón experienced the equivalent of a fiery crash at the Indianapolis 500 when, about six years ago, he was onstage at the Metropolitan…

In the previous episode of The Mozart Minute, Mozart's wedding to Constanze Weber came off with all the helter-skelter of a well-crafted comic opera. But…

You might remember a short time ago that a violin purportedly owned by Wallace Hartley, bandmaster on the ill-fated ship, had been located. Â You might…

Even if you didn't know about the Mozart family dog, you might have guessed from all of Mozart's lifelong rampant socializing, from his clear comfort in…

If some of Mozart's bawdiest letters were to his cousin, Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, some of his silliest were to his sister, Maria Anna Mozart, called…

The next Fretworks program airing Saturday evening at 7 pm and Wednesday evening at 7 will feature guitar arrangements for music of Bach and Stravinsky,…