Classical MusicClassical Music Playlist, March 22, 2023CapRadio Classical and Jazz celebrates women in music all month long by featuring a different classical composer every weekday. Today's spotlight is on Mélanie Bonis and her 1905 Piano Quartet No. 1 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Women in Music: Deborah PittmanMarch 17, 2023CapRadio Classical and Jazz is celebrating Women in Music all month long. Jennifer Reason spoke with clarinetist, ceramicist and performance artist Deborah Pittman about carrying her passion for music through life.
Women in Music: Natsuki FukasawaMarch 10, 2023 | Jennifer Reason | Avery JeffryCapRadio Classical and Jazz is celebrating Women in Music all month long including four spotlights on local musicians. Jennifer Reason spoke with pianist, professor and Steinway Artist Natsuki Fukasawa about how music can make us whole.
Missy Mazzoli is a symphonic composer with a photographer's eyeMarch 7, 2023On her new album, Dark with Excessive Bright, the vibrant, young composer coaxes unusual sounds from a symphony orchestra.
Jessie Montgomery, composing from a place of self-honorMarch 1, 2023Watch Lara Downes' conversation with the composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra about balancing her roots, her craft and the shifting field of classical music.
Gustavo Dudamel's new musical home is the New York PhilharmonicFebruary 8, 2023The New York Philharmonic announced Tuesday afternoon that the charismatic 42-year-old conductor will be taking on the music director designate post at the start of the 2025-26 concert season.
Lara Downes' season 3 of 'Amplify' launches with a theme of renaissanceFebruary 2, 2023NPR's Leila Fadel talks to pianist Lara Downes about her interview series Amplify, which examines how Black artists today might find themselves in a new cultural renaissance.
For Missy Mazzoli, composing is the hard work of making life easierJanuary 26, 2023The composer of Breaking the Waves speaks candidly about equity in her field, the importance of role models and the unglamorous side of writing music every day.
Ned Rorem, major American composer and diarist, has died at age 99November 18, 2022The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and diarist died Friday at age 99. Although he won the Pulitzer for an orchestral work, he was most celebrated for his huge body of art songs — over 500 in all.
Where are the Black musicians in the country's largest orchestras?October 4, 2022In 2014, a study found that only 1.4% of orchestra musicians were Black. In 2022, it's hard to know if that number is better or worse.
A new label revives forgotten female composers' musicAugust 18, 2022The new record label La Boîte à Pépites is dedicated to raising the profile of female composers whose works have been neglected.
