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
Rancho Cordova Orchestra Provides Free Feast For The EarsMay 23, 2016 | Paul ConleyShoppers at a Rancho Cordova food market were treated to a feast for the ears on Saturday when a 50-piece community orchestra gave a free concert in the store's food court.
Itzhak Perlman On Canceling In North Carolina: 'I Had To'May 18, 2016Like Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and others, the renowned violinist has canceled a North Carolina appearance over a law limiting civil rights protections for LGBT people.
Jane Little, Longtime Orchestra Musician, Collapses On Stage And DiesMay 17, 2016The bassist joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1945, when she was just 16 years old. She died over the weekend while performing on stage.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezSierra Master Chorale and Orchestra May 12, 2016Sierra Master Chorale and Orchestra Music director and conductor Ken Hardin joins Insight to discuss, the 75-member choir and 30-piece orchestra and "The Armed Man."
Insight With Vicki GonzalezSound Advice With Cale WigginsMay 12, 2016Capital Public Radio’s Afternoon Classical Host Cale Wiggins joins us for this week’s Sound Advice.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezItalian Tenor Pasquale Esposito May 10, 2016 | Cody DrabblePasquale Esposito brings his unique ‘docuconcert’ to Sacramento’s Crest Theater on Saturday, May 14. Before a recent rehearsal, Esposito visited Insight host Beth Ruyak and shared some of his favorite music.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezSacramento Master Singers Director Ralph Hughes And Ken MedemaMay 9, 2016Dr. Ralph Hughes and Ken Medema join Insight to talk about their collaboration on a triptych based on the poems of three Sacramentans, and how it came to be.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezA Conversation Ahead Of From The Top's Live Mondavi Center PerformanceMay 6, 2016We’ll listen back to an excerpt from interviews with From the Top host Christopher O'Riley and Roger Xia, an eighth grader from Davis who was a feature performer in a special live recording of From the Top.
'Behold': Moondog With A French TwistApril 22, 2016With his long beard, homemade horned helmet, flowing cloak and spear, he was known as the Viking of Sixth Avenue. He was born Louis Thomas Hardin in Marysville, Kan. in 1916 and later called himself Moondog.
Babyland Suite: A Father's Symphonic TributeApril 22, 2016 | Steve MilneThis weekend, two Sacramento sisters born in the 1930s will finally get to hear a live performance of a symphonic work written for them by their father. The Central Valley Youth Symphony will be playing the "Babyland Suite" by composer David Burnam.
