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Hear movie icon and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert speaking with Studs Terkel in the first of a two-part interview from 1996, Friday night at 10:00 PM.

The B minor Mass was written over a 35-year span, and never performed as a complete and distinct work during Bach’s lifetime. The original was preserved by the composer’s son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who made some editorial changes and had the work copied. In spite of intense curiosity from the likes of Haydn

Hear Susan Tang in a recital given during the 2012-2013 Jewel Box Concerts at Northeastern Illinois University. Dr. Tang studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and currently teaches at NEIU. There will be four recitals offered for on-demand listening from NEIU’s 2012-2013 season.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of music’s most loved, most influential, and most polarizing composers. With his music dramas, Richard Wagner boldly abandons convention; he pursues a vision that reaches beyond 19th century concepts of structure, harmony, orchestration (even inventing new instruments); beyond social mores—beyond anything that more…

A WFMT favorite “comes home” to perform on Live from WFMT. The Ukrainian-born pianist, Inna Faliks, was brought to the U.S. at the age of 10 by her mother. She was a student of the late Emilio del Rosario

Little “Halie” Jackson was a singer for as long as she could remember, but some folks at church didn’t think so. In fact, they were troubled by the liberties she took with the good old hymns. When her mother died, the care of 5-year-old Halie and her brother, Peter, went to extended family. There were thirteen of them, living in a three-room home

The iPad is popping up in unexpected places. One person was spotted reading Bach’s B Minor Mass in the box seats at Symphony Center—this while Riccardo Muti, four soloists and the CSO Chorus were singing their hearts out. Artists are starting to use the iPad on music stands