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"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream." Have you found yourself quoting this old American recently? I did, on July 14th, when I received an…

I came across a media story regarding Elvis Week, which gets underway this Saturday, August 8th, in Memphis. We happen to have two recordings in our…

As I was preparing for my program this morning, I noticed that Jon Nakamatsu was scheduled to play Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise. As I…

The great soprano Renata Tebaldi was born on February 1, 1922 and died in 2004, rich, retired, still lovely and still very much loved by fans, all over…

One of the pleasures of my job is to keep an eye out for "rising stars."Â Right now I'm fascinated with Korean pianist Soyeon Lee. She's beautiful,…

Lemony Snicket is at it again, this time with a classical music mystery: The Composer is Dead. I shan't go into a huge explanation. Suffice it to say…

Not long ago I started a list of "small music" -- musical works that are unusually short, written for unusually sparse instrumentation and/or on themes…

Well, folks, I have now, officially, seen it all. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra held a three-hour concert for an audience of...plants. 100 different…

The mayor of Toledo appears in a new commercial countering an earlier ad with firefighters calling for the repeal of Ohio's collective bargaining law. In…

Democratic candidates for Ohio Governor will debate Tuesday night at Central State University.