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Welcome to the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Our 5th season of radio concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival begins with music by the Festival’s artistic director, Marc Neikrug. The work is called Green Torso, and he composed it...
View ArticleOpera scholar salvages long-lost Italian masterpieces
Opera scholar salvages long-lost Italian masterpieces Were it not for University of Chicago musicologist Philip Gossett, a long-forgotten opera titled Stiffelio might have been lost forever. Giuseppe...
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Week 2
You could say the second 2010 broadcast from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is all about the idea of songs without words, or how different composers express feelings, experience, patriotism, or...
View ArticleSomali Radio Stations Halt Music
By MOHAMMED IBRAHIMPublished: April 13, 2010 MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 14 radio stations here in the capital stopped broadcasting music on Tuesday, heeding an ultimatum by an Islamist insurgent...
View ArticleNatalie Merchant sings old poems to life
“What I really enjoyed about this projectis reviving these people’s words,taking them off the dead, flat pages,bringing them to life, bringing them to light.” – Natalie Merchant - Click here to view...
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Week 3
Week 3 of our radio concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival features music of Béla Bartók and Carl Maria Von Weber. Violinist Benny Kim plays Bartók’s Sonata No. 2 in collaboration with...
View ArticleIt’s Shakespeare’s birthday (again) and everybody’s getting into the act.
HOW TO TALK LIKE SHAKESPEARE Instead of you, say thou or thee (and instead of y’all, say ye). Rhymed couplets are all the rage. Men are Sirrah, ladies are Mistress, and your friends are all called...
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival: Week 4
In week 4 of our concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival we hear music by Beethoven, and a couple of unusual duets, too. Jennifer Frautschi, Giora Schmidt, Teng Li, Lily Francis, and Sophie...
View ArticleThe beginnings of a beautiful friendship…
In this audio clip, Pinchas Zukerman describes meeting Itzhak Perlman for the very first time.
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Dance Day on WFMT
Dame Margot Fonteyn Friday, January 29, 2016 WFMT presents an all-day celebration of music and the cross-cultural language of dance. We’ll hear from dancers, choreographers, musicians, and composers...
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Music and Conversation with Philip Glass
A detail of Chuck Close’s portrait of composer Philip Glass In February 2016, influential American composer Philip Glass was honored by his alma mater, the University of Chicago through a series of...
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Happy 70th Birthday to Composer Marc Neikrug!
Composer Marc Neikrug (Photo: InsightFoto) Today is the 70th birthday of Marc Neikrug, the highly-respected American composer, pianist, and arts administrator whose accomplishments have been heard on...
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