- 02/19 NYP/Alan Gilbert – review
- 02/12 Aged Hands Teem With Creativity
- 02/11 Schubert is needed
- 02/09 Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette
- 02/04 Singing Strings
- 01/31 Così Fan Tutte
- 01/27 Nicholas Daniel to receive Queen’s Medal
- 01/20 Violin Masters on Parade
- 01/17 Gustav Leonhardt
- 01/14 Decoding Strauss
- 01/11 Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra
- 01/06 NYO - Daniel
- 01/03 Stradivarius v modern violins
- 12/25 Young Artists Play With Stars
- 12/21 WCPE’s “My Life in Music”
- 12/16 An Act of Dissent
- 12/09 Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New
- 12/06 Heras-Casado Named Principal Conductor
- 12/03 Orpheus in the Underworld; La traviata - reviews
- 11/28 Stradivarius violin 'replicated'
- 11/27 Review of Tosca
- 11/21 Nippert Gift cited - CSO
- 11/14 Mozartfest – review
- 11/09 Beethoven and Eliot, Missed Connections
- 11/03 Pianomania - Review
- 11/01 Titans Clash Over Cadenza
- 10/31 Bartok at Home
- 10/23 Orchestra Plays On
- 10/23 Anna Larsson – Oxford lieder festival
- 10/19 Bartók's string quartets - Takács Quartet
- 10/10 A giant of the art
- 10/04 Petrenko – review
- 09/28 Paul Lewis – review
- 09/21 Maestro’s Injury Ignites Chaos
- 09/17 Janácek - Prokofiev - Ravel
- 09/12 Cigala & Tango – review
- 09/08 Lighter, Smaller Mahler
- 09/06 James Levine Withdraws From Met Fall Season
- 09/05 Tenor Salvatore Licitra dies in Sicily
- 08/30 Michael Gordon's
'Timber'
- 08/28 Mostly Mozart’s End, and Unfinished Works
- 08/25 Heart of a Soldier
- 08/24 Liszt: Harmonies du Soir
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We celebrate the great American contralto Marian Anderson on this week’s WCPE Opera House. On January 7, 1955, the 58-year-old African-American singer made her belated Metropolitan Opera debut as the fortune teller Ulrica in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball). One of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century, much of her career was spent performing in concert and recital in major music venues and with major orchestras throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Although she was offered contracts to perform with many important European opera companies, Miss Anderson declined to do so. In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused her permission to sing before a racially integrated audience in Washington’s Constitution Hall. With the aid of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, she performed at an open-air concert on Easter Sunday of 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before 75,000 people and a radio audience of millions.
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Reflecting on a Legacy
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This year WCPE enters its 34th year in broadcasting- that's something special for any public radio station, especially a classical music station!
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