November 12, 2025 by Amy Bishop
From music by Mozart, to Steve Reich, to Chet Baker, Bruce Wood Dance’s season opener should live up to its title: “Glow.” In this conversation with WRR’s Amy Bishop, BWD Artistic Director Joy Bollinger gives a sneak peek into the three groundbreaking contemporary dance pieces on the program.
November 11, 2025 by Amy Bishop
Dallas-based Chamber Music International presents three all-star musicians– violinist Cho-Liang Lin, cellist Clive Greensmith, and pianist Jon Kimura Parker – for an evening of works by Brahms and Tchaikovsky In this podcast, WRR’s Amy Bishop chats with CMI’s Artistic Director Phil Lewis to get some insight into the pieces, and how these three musicians will bring them to life onstage. The conversation also takes a look at the remainder of CMI’s milestone 40th season.
November 4, 2025 by Amy Bishop
The Emerging Sounds concert, presented by Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts, has been described as a vibrant representation of what SMU composition students have to offer. The program is entirely student-run and seeks to utilize novel instrumentations and connect those from diverse artistic backgrounds throughout Meadows. In this interview with SMU’s Kaitlin Kleinau, we learn more about this community-building event, which serves as a launching pad for the student composers’ careers.
October 22, 2025 by Amy Bishop
Arsentiy Kharitonov, a composer and pianist based here in North Texas, has just had his impressive and dramatic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra recorded with the Kandinsky Symphony Orchestra and released by the Sound Atlas label. WRR’s Kurt Rongey spoke with Arsentiy about the genesis of the concerto, his musical development and how his studies and experiences here in Texas influenced his music-making.
October 20, 2025 by Amy Bishop
Wilhelmina Smith is regarded as a cellist whose artistic mission embraces a conversation through music, one that enthusiastically encompasses the music of the present placed within the context of a living past. In this podcast with WRR’s Brooke Scholl, she talks about her new album, Sweetgrass, which features music by Indigenous composer/cellist Dawn Avery.
October 20, 2025 by Amy Bishop
Hailed as the “Monet of the classical guitar” by Atlanta Journal, Sharon Isbin is a longtime fixture in the genre with multiple GRAMMY awards and an ever-growing list of accolades. WRR’s Brooke Scholl recently sat down with Isbin to talk about the artist’s latest release, Romantico, featuring world premiere recordings of joyous Latin dance-inspired music for guitar by Karen LeFrak.
October 14, 2025 by Amy Bishop
In November 1957, the Dallas Civic Opera (now The Dallas Opera) officially opened with a headlining concert starring Maria Callas at the State Fair Music Hall (now Music Hall at Fair Park). Audiences have a chance to see Maria Callas once again via a hologram concert at the Music Hall in Fair Park, featuring The Dallas Opera Orchestra on Friday, October 31st, 2025
October 13, 2025 by Amy Bishop
WRR’s Amy Bishop visits with composer/instrumentalist Angelica Negron, who describes her new work, ‘for everything you keep losing,’ set to have its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in October 2025. Negron also shares exciting news about a work she’s writing for cellist Yo-Yo Ma and her love for including unconventional sounds in classical music.
October 13, 2025 by Amy Bishop
October 9, 2025 by Amy Bishop
Cellist Matt Haimovitz has earned a reputation as a musical pioneer in today’s classical music sphere. Two albums by the internationally renowned musician were recently nominated for GRAMMYs: “Schnittke Cello Concerto No.1” with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and “Jacqueline,” Luna Pearl Woolf’s opera with soprano Marnie Breckenridge. In this interview with WRR’s Brooke Scholl, Haimovitz discusses the joys of playing these works, his special friendship with the late Jaqueline du Pre, and more.
