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A POST FOR THE SAKE OF POSTING: NOT WORTH KEEPING There seems to be an opera theme going on here in recent blog posts from my colleagues at WOSU-FM, but I…

At one time or another, I believe all of us feel as though we could write a song. Maybe you picked out a melody on the piano or wrote some lyrics that…

At the Soviet blasphemers of good taste, I thumb my Russian nose. What would it be like to live in a totalitarian state? Those of us who have enjoyed two…

What kind of musical thoughts were going through the mind of great Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the spring of 1866 as he started…

Central Ohio is a good place for young musicians. Several are featured on the next edition of From the Top, broadcast on Classical 101 Sundays at 7 p.m.…

Your cityscapes are such that one can hear big sky between cement notes. It is a delicious musical incongruity that Aaron Copland, the composer who better…

Take our folks songs and our hymns. We trust you are a noble alchemist. It's a little difficult to pin labels on Ralph Vaughan Williams. Was he a…

Your music visits a new key, and another, and yet another . . . If you've ever felt as though you're on a banana peel while listening to Richard Strauss'…

Earlier, I discussed the hand problems of Robert Schumann and the potential causes of said problems in a tongue-in-cheek blog about becoming a concert…

Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel has taken the classical music world by storm, beginning with exciting performances with youth…