Latest Music Stories
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When he takes over, in the fall of 2027, he will be the youngest music director in the orchestra's 133-year history.
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While Beyoncé's new album suggests the country-music industry's problematic history of excluding Black artists, the collection as a whole is as much a celebration as it is a critique.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with the multi-instrumentalist James Bishop about how he transforms recordings of natural objects into music.
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NPR's Scott Simons speaks with Bardo Martinez, the lead singer of the Latin rock band Chicano Batman, about their fifth album, "Notebook Fantasy."
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Giddens' banjo and viola are featured on Beyoncé's new country album. We listen back to a 2010 interview and in-studio performance by Giddens and the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
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Sheryl Crow announced her final album in 2019. She has since reconsidered her position. Her 2024 album is called Evolution.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with musician and composer Ameen Mokdad, about his album The Curve, which he composed while living under ISIS occupation in Mosul, Iraq.
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Born in 1924 in Newark, N.J., Vaughan came up in the '40s, alongside bebop, a new jazz style she instantly took to. In the following decades, she proved to be one of the best singers of any genre.
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The Nashville-based musician talks about her new record and performs in front of a live studio audience at World Cafe.
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One of the most performed living composers unpacks the power of melody in her music, her unconventional path to success and how visual art guides her process.
The Beethoven Network is the all-classical service produced at WFMT's state-of-the-art broadcast studios. The program is hosted by Peter Van De Graaff.