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Join me for Verdi's La traviata-Saturday at 1.30 on Classical 101. Tiziana Fabbricini and Roberto Alagna sing and Riccardo Muti conducts. You can look up…

If your only memory of the accordion comes from Lawrence Welk reruns, there's someone you should check out. Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen loves to…

The old switchboards employed by Ma Bell were marvelous inventions. Â Anyone could be connected to everyone, simply by plugging in a few cables. Â…

Yo Yo Ma seems to fear nothing. Accompany a 23-year-old "jookin dancer" Lil' Buck to Saint-Saens' The Swan? Â No problem. Â Join forces with Galician…

There are a number of musicians today who seem to defy categorization, appealing to a broad spectrum of listeners from all musical walks of life. Â Of…

Two weeks ago Downton Abbey's fourth season continued with a visit from Dame Nelle Melba. Since Melba was considered "trade," Carson insisted that such…

You've heard the old joke, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice." There are many people, famous and not, to whom credit for the…

When I think of the Christmas Holiday season, the composer that most often comes to mind for me is Johann Sebastian Bach. Handel's Messiah is wonderful,…

It's been the mezzo-soprano's national anthem for 130 years, Delila's seduction of Samson, complete with hair cut, in Act II of Camille Saint-Saens's…

Abdullah Kurdi, whose 3-year-old son's lifeless body was photographed facedown on a Turkish beach, says: "I hope the world will learn something from it."