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What a lovely request: the brief Alleluia by Randall Thompson. This magical setting of the happiest of words is a favorite with high school choruses and…

A couple sits at a restaurant table eating dinner and chatting...not with each other, but each with someone else on a cellphone. A department store clerk…

PBS program Great Performances presents a gala concert by the New York Philharmonic celebrating the 120th anniversary of New York's Carnegie Hall. The…

Last week on Fretworks Saturday evening at 7, we had the famous anonymous short piece, Romance, arranged for guitar and orchestra. There will be…

This Saturday evening at 7 on Fretworks, I'll have Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita and the Tokyo String Quartet for their recording of the Guitar…

Jacqueline du Pré was recognized as one of the world's leading cellists before her career, and life, were cut terribly short.  What if du Pré, whose…

The french horn is one of the most treacherous instruments in the orchestra. It is a tightrope from which it is easy to fall. Mozart's horn concertos,…

What started as a not-unusual situation is rapidly approaching the unthinkable, as leaders of the Minnesota Orchestra seem prepared not only to delay the…

Dutch violinist Janine Jansen began violin studies at 6-years-old. Â Now 35, she has ascended to the ranks of the worlds finest violinists. Â Some have…

The five people aboard the helicopter were brought to land and treated by paramedics.