
Something kind of miraculous takes place when teenagers take over the Tiny Desk. Their astounding performances confirm a bright forecast for the future of music.
January 15, 2025 by
Something kind of miraculous takes place when teenagers take over the Tiny Desk. Their astounding performances confirm a bright forecast for the future of music.
January 14, 2025 by
Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists.
January 7, 2025 by
The rising star of the British Kanneh-Mason family offers vigorous Chopin, serene Liszt and a stirring spiritual at the trusty Tiny Desk upright piano.
January 6, 2025 by Amy Bishop
“Forging the very special connection with Maestro Guzman has always been very beneficial and has kind of shaped this new piece I’ve written for the orchestra,” says North Texas-based composer Quinn Mason. Guzman will lead the Plano Symphony Orchestra in the commissioned world premiere of Mason’s Shine Time in a program that also includes the… Read more »
December 16, 2024 by
NPR Music’s classical expert is an omnivorous listener, who treated the music of 2024 as sustenance for a year of zigzagging emotional highs and lows.
December 9, 2024 by
Discover a wide range of this year’s most compelling classical music, from symphonic thrill rides and soaring voices to delicate baroque suites, ambient adventures and one groove-laden masterwork.
December 7, 2024 by
Olivier Latry is Notre Dame Cathedral’s longest-serving organist. Just days before the church’s gala reopening, after the destructive fire in 2019, he talks about the refurbished instrument — it holds 8,000 pipes — and its role in the church.
December 5, 2024 by
The Grammy winner and former Late Show bandleader unravels the crisscrossing threads of musical lineage from Beethoven’s own personal blues to the musical art form that undergirds Batiste’s Louisiana roots.
December 2, 2024 by
You can’t always know that it’s a great year for new music while it’s happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.
November 15, 2024 by Amy Bishop
The Dallas-based Bruce Wood Dance company is kicking off its 15-anniversary season with the Dallas premiere of Jiri Kylian’s Songs of a Wayfarer in a program that also includes two audience favorites by Bruce Wood, plus a Mozart-inspired work by Lar Lubovitch. In this feature with WRR’s Amy Bishop, the company’s Artistic Director Joy Bollinger… Read more »