Episodi

  • LINCOLN CENTER MOMENTS - A music program reviving some memories that Dementia has taken away

    LINCOLN CENTER MOMENTS - A music program reviving some memories that Dementia has taken away
    Nov 3 2026
    Many of us have relatives who are suffering from dementia. There’s a program at Lincoln Center in New York called Lincoln Center Moments that has cognitive benefits for those suffering and helps them and their caregivers. It’s also open to those around the world via their virtual programs. Katie Fanning, of the program says there are many examples of how the program revives long dormant memories.
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    18 min
  • Notes Of Deception - How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB

    Notes Of Deception - How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB
    Oct 25 2026
    The year was 1985 when members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB) went on a secret mission to what was then the Soviet Union. The plan was to meet with the Refuseniks, Russian Jews, and smuggle information about them out of the country. Dr. Merryl Goldberg was one of the four musicians on the trip, and she used a music cypher to get pass the KGB. The entire adventure is now chronicled in the book Notes of Deception.
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    26 min
  • The Art Songs Now “In Plain Sight”. AND the musical life of the colonists during the revolutionary war

    The Art Songs Now “In Plain Sight”. AND the musical life of the colonists during the revolutionary war
    Oct 17 2026
    There are so many musical works that have been lost to history. Joshua Conyers and the faculty and students at the Eastman School Of Music in Rochester, NY has recorded over 40 of them in an album called In Plain Sight, The Black Anthology. In recognition of the nation’s 250th, there’s the first part of a three-part series about the musical lives of the colonists during the Revolutionary War. Music professors at the University of Texas in Austin, Andrew F. Dell'Antonio and Hannah Lewis offer some fascinating information about it.
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    30 min
  • Expanding The Opera Canon With THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR

    Expanding The Opera Canon With THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR
    Oct 8 2026
    The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr is historic. It’s one of the few operas covering South Asian themes. It centers on Laila Starr, the avatar of Death living as a mortal in Mumbai, India. It was created by composer Kamala Sankaram, and the librettist, Minita Gandhi via the New Works Initiative at the Minnesota Opera. Hear how their backgrounds, talents and curiosity shaped The Many Deaths of Laila Starr.
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    22 min
  • Dudamel And Dale Making Music On Both Coasts

    Dudamel And Dale Making Music On Both Coasts
    Sep 20 2026
    Now that Gustavo Dudamel is holding the baton for the New York Philharmonic, the classical music community is all atwitter. He says he’s not coming in to make changes, but changes will most likely come. And on the west coast, from whence he came there’s Dale Dale Hikawa Silverman, a violist and the first Asian American woman at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She tells stories of her 40-year career so far with the orchestra in her documentary DALE.
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    19 min
  • Classical Music At The Beerfest

    Classical Music At The Beerfest
    Sep 14 2026
    When you go to a beerfest, like the one coming up in Munich are you expecting to hear any form of classical music? If the answer is no, then patrons attending the Munich Oktoberfest are going to be quite surprised when the Cellist Anna Rehker and her string quartet start playing music from Bridgerton along with some classical music hits.
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    14 min
  • Remebrances of REPORTING on 9-11 from Judlyne Lilly

    Remebrances of REPORTING on 9-11 from Judlyne Lilly
    Sep 11 2026
    Many of you were not alive or were babies on the horrible day, September 11, 2001.
    Those of us who were will NEVER FORGET it. That includes the thousands of reporters who covered the events of that day and in the days ahead. Judlyne Lilly was a news anchor at WTOP Radio in Washington, DC at that time. Here's how she remembers it.


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    3 min
  • Opera Creole Continues Performing The Sounds Of History After Morgiane

    Opera Creole Continues Performing The Sounds Of History After Morgiane
    Sep 4 2026
    Morgiane, the opera by Louisiana native Edmond Dédé got national and international attention when it was performed and recorded earlier this year. This 1887 opera was finally included in the opera canon after 138 years and a 12-year effort by Givonna Joseph, Artistic Director of Opera Creole in New Orleans. This opera company continues singing about historical events in the Black community of New Orleans and beyond as they prepare for their 2026-2027 season.
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    27 min