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You know you're the type to look in people's medicine cabinets. We all do it. I have another quirk. I look all through people's books, records, and CDs. I…

The travails of the New York City Opera are well-documented. In an open letter to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Charles Loomis of Musical…

Happy 90th birthday to Franco Zeffirelli! Nowadays there's a trend in the theater and in opera for minimalist sets and costumes, or none at all.…

All this week, we're featuring the Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen on Symphony @ 7. He recently won the ECHO Klassik Award for Conductor of the Year…

The David Frost Show was a celebrity pit stop on United States TV in the late 1960s early 1970s. Frost, whose post-Watergate Nixon interviews put his…

Does the thought of seven consecutive hours of nothing but opera on Classical 101's wonderful airwaves strike you with joy, pity, mirth, fear, revulsion…

The Classical 101 library has upwards of 1,000 Christmas recordings. Everything from purely classical Baroque and early music discs to jazz, electric…

There is not much more impressive-looking in a living room or on stage than a Steinway grand piano, not to mention what comes out of it in the hands of…

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…

Experimentation has brought the world wonderful things - light bulbs, automobiles, airplanes, the ability to deep fry an entire turkey. Ok, maybe the…