Brevard Music Center kicks off its 2025 Summer Festival this week, set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Classical Music Stories from NPR
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The Oscar-winning actor known for his intense on-screen performances talks about his first love — music — and collaborating with conductor on Life is a Dream.
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Pianist Jon Batiste has been busy. He's offering three new albums at once: one tribute to Mozart and two tributes to Thelonious Monk.
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The New York-based string quartet's new album Rhythm Nation teems with beats ranging from West Africa and Venezuela to jazz standards and Janet Jackson.
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America's darling diva pairs up with the banjo guru of our time for a set of old Appalachian songs about love, loss and the sturdy hope for better times.
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The rising young conductor's new album, Ukrainian Mixtape, is a introduction to composers even some Ukrainians don't know very well.
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The 2024 Grammy winner goes big on her new five-part, 20-track album.
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After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band.
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Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.
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Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her lovingly restored birthplace in Tryon, N.C.
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To mark the occasion of Miles Davis' centennial, trumpeter Keyon Harrold put on a concert at Carnegie Hall and shared a candid conversation about the legend with Christian McBride.