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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…

Marilyn Horne and I had a dear friend in common. Our friend died last fall after a long illness. I came to know Marilyn as a warm-hearted and generous…

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…

A recent ProMusica Chamber Orchestra concert combined two of my favorite things...great music - and laughter. It was an opportunity to allow a peek behind…

Giuseppe Verdi turns 200 this October. He died in 1901. Here are a few seconds from his funeral, as the cortege leaves the Milan Cathedral and passes by…