Tom Huizenga

Tom Huizenga appears in the following:

Can classical music really be inclusive? Composer Jessie Montgomery thinks so

Thursday, April 28, 2022

With orchestras clamoring for her work, the rising artist feels a responsibility and opportunity to help reframe classical music and the institutions that present it.

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Roger Eno: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Gentle music from the bucolic English countryside pervades this tranquil Tiny Desk (home) concert by Roger Eno, with a special appearance by his two daughters.

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Jason Vieaux, 'Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1: IV. Presto'

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Classical guitarists can rock out, too. Hear a searing, joyful performance of Bach at its most shred-worthy and satisfying.

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Leif Ove Andsnes: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Friday, April 08, 2022

Hear the award-winning pianist offer two sides of Mozart's genius from inside the composer's own home in Vienna.

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Lavinia Meijer (feat. Iggy Pop), 'Mom & Dad'

Friday, April 01, 2022

A surprising collaboration between Iggy Pop and harpist Lavinia Meijer touches on the love, loss and regret between children and parents.

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Disassembler, 'Dynasty'

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

From a series of texts and downloads, a meditative, electroacoustic oasis of calm emerges.

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At 97, Pianist Ruth Slenczynska has a new album — and plenty of stories

Friday, March 18, 2022

The ebullient nonagenarian's new recording features music she's been playing for nearly a century.

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Jóhann Jóhannsson, 'Take the Night Air'

Friday, March 18, 2022

The late Icelandic composer's magnum opus unfolds like a ritual, combining a potent mix of tradition and technology.

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Daniel Hope: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Watch violinist Daniel Hope play Beethoven from the composer's own birth house in Bonn, Germany.

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Tuesday, March 08, 2022

A fearless risk-taker who makes warhorses sound freshly minted, Kopatchinskaja, from her Vienna apartment, sets fire to Beethoven and offers rarely heard American music.

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Joyce DiDonato's 'Eden' beckons humanity back to the garden

Tuesday, March 01, 2022

On her new album, the opera star suggests Mother Nature has a lot to teach us, if we'd only listen.

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Claremont Trio, 'Serenata'

Monday, February 28, 2022

Violin and cello are sparkling stand-ins for the Andean charango in an evocative serenade by Gabriela Lena Frank.

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Jean Rondeau, 'Aria'

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Hear the French harpsichordist's monument to silence in a luminous and expansive performance from Bach's Goldberg Variations.

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Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Opera and cabaret comingle when two odd bedfellows bring music by Philip Glass, The Bangles, Peter Gabriel and Christoph Willibald Gluck to a "tiny apartment" in Manhattan.

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yMusic, 'Together'

Friday, February 11, 2022

Hear a sparkling new chamber piece that, by design, explores the idea of being together.

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Daniel Wohl, 'Drift'

Friday, January 28, 2022

Hear an ode to the air we breathe from the innovative electro-acoustic composer, with an assist from a children's choir.

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Steven Beck, 'Piano Sonata No. 5' (George Walker)

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

George Walker's final Piano Sonata might be short in length, but it's long on ideas, unfolding in a colorful thicket of textures and episodes.

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Opera singer Maria Ewing, known for her dramatic intensity, has died at age 71

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Acclaimed for her fearless performances in operas by Strauss and Bizet, Ewing also partly inspired Passing, a film written and directed by her daughter, Rebecca Hall.

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Hilary Hahn, 'Serenade for Life'

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Hear the violinist, celebrated for her beautiful tone, in a surprise gift from a departed composer.

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NPR's favorite history books of 2021

Sunday, December 26, 2021

From NPR's annual list of reading recommendations, Books We Love, we hear four suggestions of history books from 2021.

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