As the summer 2002 winds down, music festivals across North America and Europe are a bright spot in the embattled world of classical music, providing an opportunity for musicians and audiences to rejuvenate amid awe-inspiring settings and lighter, outdoor-style programming. What's more, they're providing outlets for some of today's most ...

Renée Fleming's forthcoming new recital CD is titled Bel Canto, which translates literally as "beautiful singing." It certainly lives up to its title, not only because it showcases the music of the 19th-century bel canto school of composers - Donizetti, Bellini, and Rossini - but also because it aptly describes ...

Music lovers have taken to affectionately calling this year's Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center the "Heartily Handel Festival" - given its special focus on the music of Georg Frideric Handel. And although the concerts by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra have been canceled in the aftermath of a strike ...

The wildly controversial and misunderstood composer whom audiences either praise or blame for atonality receives special focus this week on WNYC, as Soundcheck and The Fishko Files delve into the works and career of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951).

In Soundcheck, host John Schaefer sheds light on some of the ...

Sunday’s Evening Music sets sail on a sea of music: of course there is Debussy’s “La Mer,” but also Mendelssohn’s “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage” Overture, Ravel’s “Une Barque sur l'ocean,” and other watery delights.

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With a career spanning over sixty years, Richard Rodgers (1902-79) was the most popular composer of American musical theater of the Twentieth Century. His lengthy collaboration with lyricist Lorenz Hart yielded dozens of songs which became integral to American popular culture such as “Manhattan,” “My Funny ...

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"What A Beautiful Morning" is an hour-long tribute to the revolutionary Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, originally created to mark the 50th anniversity of its Broadway premiere. Oklahoma! was presented to the world at the St.James Theatre on March 31, 1943, and its unprecedented combination of ...

The CD is devoted to Andres Segovia (Suh-GO-vee-uh). Just out this week, The Segovia Collection is on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Eliot Fisk will perform Bach and Paganini August 16th at the Skaneateles Festival in upstate New York.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Concert No. 3 Jean-Philippe Rameau ORCHESTRA/ENSEMBLE: The Queen's Chamber Band SOLOIST(S): Elaine Comparone, harpsichord Lyrichord 8040

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Double-bass Concerto in b Giovanni Bottesini CONDUCTOR: Hugh Wolff ORCHESTRA/ENSEMBLE: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra SOLOIST(S): Edgar Meyer, double bass CBS/Sony 60956

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Simple Symphony," Op. 4 Benjamin Britten CONDUCTOR: Iona Brown ORCHESTRA/ENSEMBLE: ...