Jennifer Reason
Midday Classical Announcer
January 13, 2021
Cellist Ofra Harnoy talks about the love for her new home in Newfoundland and how it inspired her album "On The Rock."
January 11, 2021
This car choir solution is one that accomplished baritone David Newman came up with so that ensembles could sing "together." The method uses microphones, a mixer, an FM transmitter and car radios.
January 6, 2021
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma talks about the feeling and emotions that went into his new album, "Songs of Comfort and Hope," and how music can help us weather the storm of the pandemic.
December 30, 2020
his week on New Classical Tracks, Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri talk about their latest release, "The Sacred Veil" which explores the journey of a soul crossing the threshold into the next world.
December 26, 2020
The renowned musician and Late Show bandleader has sage advice on everything from finding your north star and owning your own orbit to honoring lineage.
December 23, 2020
NPR Music's classical editor traces the high points of a year spent listening to new albums that offered comfort and confrontation in counterpoint with the relentless world outside the headphones.
December 23, 2020
This Week on New Classical Tracks, Deondra and Greg Brown from the 5 Browns share the joy and pain of revisiting childhood memories for the group's new album.
December 16, 2020
Violinist Midori's new Beethoven release with the Festival Strings Lucerne was supposed to be a live recording. But that performance got canceled due to COVID, so they made a studio recording instead.
December 14, 2020
The ambient composer and Brian Eno collaborator died this week at the age of 84 from complications brought on by COVID-19.
December 12, 2020
In conversation and in song, the opera singer and the pianist discover healing in a traumatized space.
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