Gabriela Lena Frank's "Hilos"

Synopsis On today’s date in 1964, the musical Anyone Can Whistle opened at Broadway’s Majestic Theater. The book was by Arthur Laurents, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The show told the story of a town that's gone bankrupt because its only industry manufactured so ...  Show more

Synopsis On today’s date in 2003, a new orchestral work by American composer Elliott Carter had its premiere in Boston. Carter was then 94 — he would live to be a month shy of 104, and, even more remarkable, he was composing new works almost to the end of his days. When you live ...  Show more

New Classical Tracks - Plinio Fernandes (radio edit) by Plinio Fernandes - Bacheando (Decca) “For me, playing the guitar gives me a sense of identity, because it's something that I have been doing since I was very, very young,” guitarist Plinio Fernandes says. “I don't re ...  Show more

Lola Flores no solo se convirtió en una de las artistas más importantes del país: también supo inventarse a sí misma y construir su propia leyenda. Hoy repasamos su trepidante vida…¡no se la pierdan! NOTAS Braulio “Una nueva artista jerezana: Lolita Flores”, Ayer, 12 de octubre d ...  Show more

Grammy-winning blues musician Susan Tedeschi shares her story of how a blue-eyed, blonde-haired girl from Massachusetts came to possess one of the most respected voices of anyone in her genre (B.B. King counts as but one of her many famous fans.) Throughout the episode Tedeschi r ...  Show more

Antonin Dvorak wrote his Gypsy Songs in 1880. He was passionate about the folk music of his native Bohemia and set a poem by Czech poet Adolf Heyduk to music. Songs My Mother Taught Me is the fourth song in the cycle.Songs my Mother taught me In the days long vanished Seldom from ...  Show more