Local Artist Feature May 29, 2026: Pulitzer Prize Winner for Music This Year Happens to be LocalWhat a month: Gabriela Lena Frank was named Musical America’s Composer of the Year. Her opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is being performed at the Met. And earlier this month she won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Wow! Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Local Artist Feature May 22nd, 2026: From the New York Philharmonic to Founding the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento
Jennifer Reason Celebrates Two Years of the Local Artist FeatureJanuary 28, 2026 | Jennifer ReasonMidday Classical host Jennifer Reason’s Local Artist Feature shines a spotlight on the region’s best performers and composers, and has become a staple of KXPR’s weekly programming.
Modesto Symphony Premieres A Long Lost Symphony From An Exiled Ukrainian ComposerNovember 19, 2025 | Jennifer ReasonIt’s music born of exile and massacre, and a bit of history repeating itself.
Dream Team Joshua Bell and Peter Dugan turn in a transcendent performance at the Mondavi CenterApril 9, 2025 | Jennifer ReasonCapRadio's Midday Classical host Jennifer Reason emcees a duo concert with violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Peter Dugan.
LSO Director Kathryn McDowell shares vision for the future of one of the world’s most prestigious orchestrasFebruary 17, 2025 | Jennifer ReasonAs managing director of the London Symphony Orchestra for 20 years, Kathryn McDowell is continuing to place a focus on education and outreach in the classical world.
Great Composers Chamber Music Series premieres 11th season with a tale of two 19th century heroinesOctober 18, 2024 | Kevin Doherty"Ahead of Their Time" entwines the lives of two trailblazing artists - German composer Clara Schumann and Italian actress Adelaide Ristori - in an afternoon of music and monologue at the Harris Center.
Violinist with ties to the area makes his debut at the Mondavi CenterOctober 9, 2024 | Jennifer ReasonRandall Goosby, who has connections to Sacramento and Davis, is at the forefront of a new generation of classical violinists.
Women in Music: Jessica BejaranoApril 3, 2024 | Jennifer ReasonJennifer Reason continues the celebration of Women’s History Month with a Bay Area conductor who is breaking down barriers in the classical world with an orchestra founded on the idea of inclusivity.
Women in Music: Starr ParodiMarch 12, 2024 | Jennifer ReasonCapRadio's Jennifer Reason kicks off Women’s History Month with a multi-faceted California native; one who is changing the game for composing and producing in the film world.
Sacramento’s ‘Music At Noon’ concert series to celebrate thousandth performance in MayFebruary 20, 2024 | Jennifer ReasonThe series was started in 2002 by Brad Slocum, an organist at Westminster Presbyterian Church, and has solidified itself as an institution in the musical culture of Sacramento.
'Maestro' chronicles the brilliant Bernstein — and his disorderly conductNovember 22, 2023Actors Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan give warm, deeply sympathetic performances as wide-ranging musician Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn, in a biopic directed by Cooper.
