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The gods would smile on you if they knew how close you came to their own art. Claudio Monteverdi had a front-row seat for the birth of opera. Imagine that…

I had been disappointed that the 70th anniversary of Marian Anderson's 1939 Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial had passed…

J. S. Bach's birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, but sometimes his worthy sons get overlooked. Today (March 8) is the birthday of Carl Philipp…

ONE AUDIO PIECE, UNKNOWN ORIGIN (COPYRIGHT ISSUES?) One hundred years ago, Rosa and Moishe Gershovitz bought an upright piano and had it hoisted into…

Horowitz. Rubinstein. Cliburn. Gould. Those names conjure up thoughts of footlights, concert halls, and life in the public eye. Beyond the piano, those…

When Late-Romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler completed his First Symphony in 1888, he called it "Titan," thinking of it as a large five-movement…

An Irish Symphony, now there's something that's bound to be full of wonderful tunes, a nostalgic longing for a lost world of magical nature, and an…

Why, until recently, has it been easier to talk about runners' safety for (white) women than for runners of color?

Songs that carried the Freedom Movement will be center stage Monday as a music historian examines how it scripted a "narrative of liberation." This...

The Pike County prosecutor says he's contacted the FBI and the Ohio Attorney General's office after a video emerged showing a Sheriff's deputy macing and…