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PBS program Great Performances presents a gala concert by the New York Philharmonic celebrating the 120th anniversary of New York's Carnegie Hall. The…

Last week on Fretworks Saturday evening at 7, we had the famous anonymous short piece, Romance, arranged for guitar and orchestra. There will be…

This Saturday evening at 7 on Fretworks, I'll have Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita and the Tokyo String Quartet for their recording of the Guitar…

Jacqueline du Pré was recognized as one of the world's leading cellists before her career, and life, were cut terribly short.  What if du Pré, whose…

The french horn is one of the most treacherous instruments in the orchestra. It is a tightrope from which it is easy to fall. Mozart's horn concertos,…

What started as a not-unusual situation is rapidly approaching the unthinkable, as leaders of the Minnesota Orchestra seem prepared not only to delay the…

Dutch violinist Janine Jansen began violin studies at 6-years-old. Â Now 35, she has ascended to the ranks of the worlds finest violinists. Â Some have…

18-year-old violinist Caroline Goulding was most recently the recipient of the 2011 Avery Fisher Career Grant -- an honor she shares with famous classical…

As I listened to Van Cliburn play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata this morning, I was compelled to track down Nobuyuki Tsujii, the young Japanese pianist…

June 8 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann, one of the greatest Romantic composers. Although in his later years he was troubled by…