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Ella Fitzgerald, the First Lady of Song, was born 101 years ago today. Beloved around the world as not just America's foremost jazz vocalist, but...

Much is made about the age of the music most orchestras play. Â Yes, new music is commissioned and performed, but the vast majority of what you hear is by…

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…

Most of us can name a fair number of American composers - Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, John Williams. All have written great music…

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

With the Valentine's Day festivities behind us, you might well have had all of the chocolate you can stand. Chocolate hearts, flowers, sauces,…

The difficulties at New York's Metropolitan Opera have moved into full operatic mode. Peter Gelb the Met's president and CEO has written to the opera's…

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

Yesterday, millions of yogis celebrated the first International Yoga Day so today's "Ohm" Monday is a special collaboration with the teachers at Yoga on…

ONE AUDIO PIECE Scroll through this blog and you'll find a post called Maria Callas: Her Last Tosca with some excerpts recorded in performance at the…