In a new opera, a life in music and a struggle with memory loss intertwine

Composer Laura Kaminsky’s intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, dealing with the effects of memory loss.

Yunchan Lim: Tiny Desk Concert

The youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition makes our trusty upright piano sound like a 9-foot grand in music by Liszt and Tchaikovsky.

WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Germany’s Faure Quartett brings its passion for performance to Dallas

Now entering its 30th year as a piano quartet, the Faure Quartett is bringing its renowned musicianship to Dallas for a program of Brahms, Schubert, and Enescu, as part of Dallas Chamber Music Society’s current season. In this feature with WRR’s Amy Bishop, violinist Erika Geldsetzer talks about the thrill of performing each work, and... Read more »

The borderless music of Gabriela Ortiz

At last, the ambitious composer finds herself in the spotlight, with a Carnegie Hall residency and a sparkling new album featuring Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Powerhouse classical music producer Adam Abeshouse dies at 63

Over a career that lasted more than 30 years, Grammy-winner Adam Abeshouse made hundreds of records with some of classical music’s biggest stars.

Common freestyles over Toto’s ‘Africa’ at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Watch as Common and Aspen Music School students take the 1982 soft-rock hit and make something spontaneous, yet memorable.

Jennifer Koh seeks innovation and ‘artistic risk’ in revamping chamber music series

Jennifer Koh is shaking up the long-established chamber music series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. An example of that is her collaboration with pianist-composer Missy Mazzoli.

John Holiday: Tiny Desk Concert

The countertenor’s sparkling personality shines brightly in a wide ranging set that includes jazz, classical and spirituals.

Charles Ives’ vision of America still strikes an unsettling chord

To mark the 150th anniversary of the maverick American composer’s birth, pianist Jeremy Denk releases an Ives tribute album that educates, delights and confounds.

Unknown Chopin waltz identified at Morgan Library and Museum in New York

A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.