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A locally-produced film about the Underground Railroad will be feted at a fun fundraiser at the Cincinnati Art Museum on March 18.

For me this has been a lousy week. Executions, the UN, teenagers bullied to death. And its only Thursday! I turn to music for comfort. Here are a few of…

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato received an e mail from a music teacher in K-5 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The kids were going to see their first opera, the Met HD…

Another major American orchestra is now on strike. The San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas cancelled its East Coast tour last Sunday.Â…

I have a new appreciation for Itzhak Perlman after seeing several videos of him in, shall we say, unusual musical circumstances. Â It began with John…

WEAK POST, WITH A FIVE-PART VIDEO ONLY. TRASH IT. Mondays can be tough; rainy Mondays are worse. As you get into your work week, let Igor Stravinsky put a…

There's a really big full moon coming Saturday, March 19. It's the largest in about twenty years, in fact. It has to do with the moon's elliptical orbit;…

Happy Birthday to Antonio Vivaldi, "The Red Priest," as he was called for his auburn hair. Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678 and died in 1741.…

In a recent blog, I wrote about Colin Matthews' composition Pluto, the Renewer, which he added to Holst's The Planets in 2000. (Pluto May Be Small, but it…

Snow has arrived in Central Ohio as a winter storm begins moving through the region. National Weather Service forecasters say Columbus could receive eight…