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In 2017, the musically flexible duo released a medley featuring music from the year's winner for Best Original Score.

Musician Davida Scheffers was overcome with emotion during her performance of the selection from John Williams' Oscar-winning score.

Tween pianist Harmony Zhu and tap dancing pro Leo Manzari give listeners an irresistibly rhythmic rendition of Bach's second keyboard Partita.

The French President is having a moment with the Prokofiev piece.

Will it be “Phantom Thread”? Or will John Williams pick up his sixth Academy Award with another “Star Wars” score?

Watch Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang's performance in the WQXR café.

In 1968 Jimi Hendrix became a neighbor of sorts to another musical legend — George Friedrich Handel.

Watch the legendary guitarist do what he does best.

We wish there were an easy answer, but there are a lot of competing ideas.

These two sopranos singing Delibes’s "Flower Duet" just made our day a whole lot better.

Producer Noel Morris presents the series “Passage to the Middle Kingdom,” which features conversations with several accomplished musicians who play traditional Chinese instruments.

A completely subjective, non-scientific ranking of where the “Mozart” crew stands heading into Season Four.

Andy Akiho's “Ricochet” is a triple concerto for violin, percussion and ... ping-pong. And it’s exactly what you didn't know you needed to hear.

On her birthday, we're delighting in the soprano's performance of the ultimate love song, the "Song to the Moon" from Dvořák's 'Rusalka.'

On the way to his first inauguration, Abraham Lincoln made a pit stop in New York City to see the popular new Verdi opera that had just reached American shores.

The 18-year old musician is the youngest cellist to crack the Top 100 U.K. Charts.

With the Winter Games underway, and figure skating inevitably at the center of the action, we’re celebrating our favorite uses of classical music in skating performances.

On the Christmas Day following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bernstein led German, U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R. and French musicians in an inspiring performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Check out this excerpt from a Bravo! Vail Music Festival appearance — as well as some throwback footage of their WQXR performances.

A new episode of "Strange Inheritance" follows the gongs from Puccini's Italy to a warehouse in Queens.