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Certain instruments are regularly called upon to create a mood. Flutes and birds, angelic harps, regal horns, stately trumpets. There are two instruments…

This week on Symphony @ 7, we are featuring fourth symphonies by five composers. We started with Brahms and Beethoven, but with this evening's work we're…

Classical 101's Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts continue this weekend with a new recording (okay, the only recording) of Offenbach's delightful…

It's dangerous to mess with perfection...especially when it is as well know as the music of the Beatles. I have heard more bad covers of rock tunes than I…

The New York City Opera was formed in 1944 by Fiorello LaGuardia and Morton Baum to be the "people's opera." Innovative repertoire choices and inexpensive…

Musicians know all about suffering. Internalizing their pain often makes for great music. Thomas Quasthoff has had more pain than most. He's a…

By all accounts, Franz Liszt was an amazing showman. It's no wonder we read stories of women fawning over him, following him down the street, and picking…

Opera Columbus continues its renaissance with a new way to present La boheme. You know the drill. Impoverished students in Paris, circa 1850, live in cold…

This Sunday, June 12 at 2 p.m. I'll be presenting the 1978 Metropolitan Opera production of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, with Placido Domingo, James…

Shirley Verrett, glorious and glamorous soprano and mezzo soprano, is remembered this Saturday on two of Classical 101's programs: First, on Serenata…