We're putting together the Ultimate Feel-Good Playlist, based on your suggestions, and we're sharing it each weekday through Feb. 27 during our Winter Member Drive. Listen now to your picks for today.
This week on New Classical Tracks, Rachel Barton Pine discusses her love for the 'headbanging riffs' of Aram Khachaturian's Violin Concerto. Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of the CD!
This week on the Daily Download, we're featuring submissions from our Ultimate Feel-Good Playlist! Get a free MP3 of Franz Schubert - Piano Quintet "Trout": IV. Thema with Variations. And don't forget to sign up for the Daily Download newsletter to get a bonus download of Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' - and so you never miss a free classical track!
Listen to Class Notes artist Siama's Congo Roots and sit in on a live reading of Classical Kids Storytime at Rock the Cradle. Join us as Classical MPR teams up with The Current at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 8, for a kid-friendly event that you don't want to miss!
February marks Black History Month, and Pipedreams has a few programs that highlight black and African-American composers and performers. Take a listen to these shows, and learn about the role black composers have played in organ history.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts all nine symphonies this year. He spoke about the surprisingly political side of Beethoven's music with All Things Considered.
Composer and activist Dameun Strange discusses the opera he wrote to honor the legacy of Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., in the latest episode of Trilloquy, with hosts Garrett McQueen and Scott Blankenship.
In a statement released Tuesday, the American Guild of Musical Artists said that investigators found that the opera megastar had engaged in 'inappropriate activity' with women.
It's not as mean as it might sound (though it does involve a little electrocution) and the results can be both beautiful and, well, eye-opening.
Enter now for a chance to win a $100 gift to J.W. Pepper, one of the largest sources of choral sheet music! Sign up for the new Choral Stream newsletter and enter by March 3.
There are about two dozen tuneless choirs across Britain. The choirs are intended for those who love to sing but lack the ability or confidence to do so.
Harriet loves ballet class, but when her teacher announces a recital, she comes down with a bad case of stage fright. Will Harriet overcome her fears before the big performance? Find out in "Harriet's Recital," the latest episode of Classical Kids Storytime, featuring an original story and illustrations by Nancy Carlson and music by Tchaikovsky.
Two scholars at Stanford have joined forces to recreate what a Christian choir might have sounded like inside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia before it became a mosque in the 1400s.
You can listen to Classical Minnesota Public Radio on Amazon Echo and Google Home, as well as install Alexa skills for all of the themed YourClassical music streams. Here's how.