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Classical 101Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists.
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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.
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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.
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Classical 101For more than 40 years, the annual Twelfth Night concert of The Early Interval, Columbus鈥 resident early music ensemble, has reminded us that Christmas is just the beginning of the traditional season of holiday merriment.
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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 鈥 it holds 8,000 pipes 鈥 and its role in the church.
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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.
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Classical 101Thereminist Caroline Scruggs performs a classic song on the electronic instrument she calls her 鈥渟econd voice" in the 星空无限传媒 Performance Studio. Scruggs also shares some thoughts about the theremin's history and what she describes as the instrument's 鈥渄eep humanity.鈥
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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.
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Classical 101The 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.
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Classical 101Long a fixture of sci-fi film soundtracks, the theremin will sail through central Ohio this weekend when the Central Ohio Symphony and thereminist Caroline Scruggs perform the world premiere of the Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra by Linda Kernohan.