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One of the great things about classical music: You can never know it all. There's always room to experience music loved by many but new to you. This…

A major quake in the early hours of Sunday morning woke up residents of Anchorage and could be felt across much of southern Alaska. There's no risk of a tsunami, the National Weather Service says.

While I do not advocate violence as a means to an end, maybe the Italians are on to something. Seems that, when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's…

J. S. Bach's birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, but sometimes his worthy sons get overlooked. Today (March 8) is the birthday of Carl Philipp…

In December 1943, Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) conducted a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Inno dei nazioni (The Hymn of the Nations) in Studio 8-H at…

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.…

[video dead] I'll tell you, youtube is a great invention. Here's a clip the original of which I well remember seeing live on the Ed Sullivan show in…

ONE AUDIO PIECE Richard Wagner's last music drama, Parsifal, had its premiere in 1882 at Bayreuth, a few months before the composer's death at the age of…

This is the 150th anniversary year of the birth of Finland's greatest composer, so I bet we'll be hearing a lot of Jean Sibelius's music in the coming…

As state governments struggle to balance budgets, they are looking to Washington for some help. Case in point: An Obama Administration proposal to give…