Classical%20Music

Listen Petra Haden Covers Classic Film Scores With A Single Voice
January 26, 2013 – Haden's new album, Petra Goes to the Movies, recasts movie scores in an a cappella setting.

Watch The Ebene Quartet Powers Through Mendelssohn
January 25, 2013 – Watch one of today's top string quartets delve deep at a Brooklyn bookstore.

Watch New Opera Gets Benefit Of The 'Doubt'
January 25, 2013 – After a Pulitzer, a Tony and several Oscar nods, Doubt returns to the stage, this time as an opera.

Listen Honoring 'Our Will To Live': The Lost Music Of The Holocaust
January 25, 2013 – An Italian musicologist is resurrecting works written in World War II camps.

Listen Miloš Karadaglić On 'Song Travels'
January 25, 2013 – The guitarist plays the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos and Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla.

Read Why Time Warner Cable Dropped Ovation
January 25, 2013 – Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.

Read Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week
January 25, 2013 – Anne Akiko Meyer's newest super-pricey fiddle and leadership changes from Munich to New York.

Read Back Off The Bach To Drive Safely
January 23, 2013 – A new study says that listening to classical music makes for unsafe driving.

Read Reneé Fleming And Susan Graham At Carnegie Hall
January 23, 2013 – The two opera stars will conjure the intimate atmosphere of the 19th-century Parisian salon.

Read Musical Google Earth: Composer Paul Moravec's Sense Of Place
January 22, 2013 – The Pulitzer Prize winner composer has written appealing pieces inspired by far flung locations.

Read Obama's 'Hope And Virtue' Distilled In A Song
January 19, 2013 – Words from the president's first inaugural address have been set to music on a new album.

Read Tuner Classic Movies
January 18, 2013 – Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.

Read Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week
January 18, 2013 – A new face for Houston, an acid attack on the Bolshoi Ballet chief and that nine-day tenure in NJ.

Read Who Needs Drugs When You've Got Music?
January 17, 2013 – When triggered by sound, chemicals in the brain can give rise to feelings of intense pleasure.

Listen The Philadelphia Orchestra At Carnegie Hall WQXR
January 17, 2013 – The famed "Philadelphia Sound" comes to New York in music by Ravel and Shostakovich. WQXR