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Will it be “Phantom Thread”? Or will John Williams pick up his sixth Academy Award with another “Star Wars” score?

Watch Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang's performance in the WQXR café.

Watch the legendary guitarist do what he does best.

We wish there were an easy answer, but there are a lot of competing ideas.

These two sopranos singing Delibes’s "Flower Duet" just made our day a whole lot better.

Producer Noel Morris presents the series “Passage to the Middle Kingdom,” which features conversations with several accomplished musicians who play traditional Chinese instruments.

A completely subjective, non-scientific ranking of where the “Mozart” crew stands heading into Season Four.

Andy Akiho's “Ricochet” is a triple concerto for violin, percussion and ... ping-pong. And it’s exactly what you didn't know you needed to hear.

On her birthday, we're delighting in the soprano's performance of the ultimate love song, the "Song to the Moon" from Dvořák's 'Rusalka.'

On the way to his first inauguration, Abraham Lincoln made a pit stop in New York City to see the popular new Verdi opera that had just reached American shores.

The 18-year old musician is the youngest cellist to crack the Top 100 U.K. Charts.

On the Christmas Day following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bernstein led German, U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R. and French musicians in an inspiring performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Check out this excerpt from a Bravo! Vail Music Festival appearance — as well as some throwback footage of their WQXR performances.

A new episode of "Strange Inheritance" follows the gongs from Puccini's Italy to a warehouse in Queens.

"Rosin flying from a bow" is imagery classical music writers love to throw around — but what does that sticky dust actually do to string instruments?

Philly's Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Boston Symphony's Andris Nelsons challenge each other to a friendly game-day wager.

In anticipation of her role as a Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist, whet your appetite with Yuja Wang’s performance of Schumann’s "The Smuggler."

Classical music is well-represented at the Grammys, but the nominees are usually found at the bottom of a massive list. We did the hard work for you, and put them front and center.

In the years following World War II, WNYC broadcast a program called "Music by New Americans," which featured performances by Jewish musicians who came to America to begin life anew.

Watch an excerpt from the Met's final dress rehearsal for their new production of "Tosca," featuring Sonya Yoncheva's title role debut.