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The nation's economy added a robust 288,000 jobs in April, far more than forecast, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent, its lowest level in five…

"If this isn't your greatest work, I don't know what is," wrote Andres Segovia to Manuel Ponce in 1940 about his Concierto del Sur (The Concerto of the…

The "Rach 3" as it's sometimes called, strikes fear into the heart of lesser pianists--but not Stewart Goodyear, who will be heard as the soloist in a new…

When the Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the “I Have a Dreamâ€? speech in August, 1963, the "I Have a Dream" section wasn’t part of the prepared…

The Boston Early Music Festival opened this Sunday with what is being billed as the North American premiere (although that's the subject of some debate)…

Thanks to our music director, Beverley Ervine, we have a magnificent CD library from which Classical 101 draws most of its programming. I find it relaxing…

This Sunday at 2 pm I'm hosting the last of the Opera on Film Series at the Upper Arlington Library. I'm delighted we've had such good crowds! Come and…

The Vienna Philharmonic has but seven women, representing 5% of its 136 members. In the Berlin Philharmonic, 18 of its 128 members, or 14%, are women.…

As Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony approached the end of the second movement of Brahms' 2nd Symphony, the auditorium grew so quiet, you could…

Runners had Rosie Ruiz. Pop music had Milli Vanilli. In the early 1900s, violinist Fritz Kreisler "rediscovered" a number of "lost classics" which he…