You can’t always know that it’s a great year for new music while it’s happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.
The 50 Best Albums Of 2024
December 2, 2024 by
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WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Bruce Wood Dance brings a Dallas premiere to the Moody
November 15, 2024 by Amy Bishop
The Dallas-based Bruce Wood Dance company is kicking off its 15-anniversary season with the Dallas premiere of Jiri Kylian’s Songs of a Wayfarer in a program that also includes two audience favorites by Bruce Wood, plus a Mozart-inspired work by Lar Lubovitch. In this feature with WRR’s Amy Bishop, the company’s Artistic Director Joy Bollinger… Read more »
In a new opera, a life in music and a struggle with memory loss intertwine
November 14, 2024 by
Composer Laura Kaminsky’s intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, dealing with the effects of memory loss.
Yunchan Lim: Tiny Desk Concert
November 13, 2024 by
The youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition makes our trusty upright piano sound like a 9-foot grand in music by Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Germany’s Faure Quartett brings its passion for performance to Dallas
November 7, 2024 by Amy Bishop
Now entering its 30th year as a piano quartet, the Faure Quartett is bringing its renowned musicianship to Dallas for a program of Brahms, Schubert, and Enescu, as part of Dallas Chamber Music Society’s current season. In this feature with WRR’s Amy Bishop, violinist Erika Geldsetzer talks about the thrill of performing each work, and… Read more »
The borderless music of Gabriela Ortiz
November 6, 2024 by Justin Bowers
At last, the ambitious composer finds herself in the spotlight, with a Carnegie Hall residency and a sparkling new album featuring Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Common freestyles over Toto’s ‘Africa’ at the Aspen Ideas Festival
November 6, 2024 by Justin Bowers
Watch as Common and Aspen Music School students take the 1982 soft-rock hit and make something spontaneous, yet memorable.
Powerhouse classical music producer Adam Abeshouse dies at 63
November 6, 2024 by Justin Bowers
Over a career that lasted more than 30 years, Grammy-winner Adam Abeshouse made hundreds of records with some of classical music’s biggest stars.
John Holiday: Tiny Desk Concert
November 6, 2024 by Justin Bowers
The countertenor’s sparkling personality shines brightly in a wide ranging set that includes jazz, classical and spirituals.
Unknown Chopin waltz identified at Morgan Library and Museum in New York
November 6, 2024 by Justin Bowers
A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.
