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An artist's rendition of the conch of Marsoulas being played in a cave where it was found by researchers in the early 20th Century.

Why A Musician Breathed New Life Into A 17,000-Year-Old Conch Shell Horn

A seashell found in a French cave appears to have been modified by prehistoric people so that it could be used like a trumpet, making it a new addition to the Stone Age orchestra.

Bernard Haitink Conducts Haydn, Debussy, and Beethoven

Saturday, May 8, 20218:00 PMIn a 2017 concert at Symphony Hall, Bernard Haitink leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 60, Debussy's…

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in Bach's Cantata 170

On the program:Toccata in D, BWV 912 - Lise de la Salle, pianoDuetto in F, BWV 803 - Caterina Lichtenberg, mandolin; Mike Marshall, mandocelloCantata BWV…

Holiday Joy from the Boston Children's Chorus

The Boston Children's Chorus performs its 10th annual holiday concert at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston on Dec. 8, 2012, with Artistic Director…

Mozart died 225 years ago at age 35. A new, enormous box set contains all of his music.

240 Hours, 22 Pounds: A Mammoth Mozart Box Set Aims At More Than 'Complete'

The new complete edition, commemorating the 225th anniversary of the Austrian composer's death, is an extravagant Mozart resource.

Back to School with WCRB: Lesser-Known Composers A to Z

This Labor Day Weekend, WCRB is celebrating the alphabet of composers with an A to Z weekend - a piece by a composer whose name starts with A, then B, and…

Composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator Tyshawn Sorey, who has been granted a MacArthur Fellowship.

Tyshawn Sorey, A Musical Shapeshifter, Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Prize

The wide-ranging composer, drummer, pianist and trombonist has been defying easy category since childhood. Now only 37 years old, he's just getting started.

The Amazing Signature Sound of Stokowski

WCRB’s CD of the Week is so big, we’ll have it around for the whole month of April! This set of the complete Decca “Phase 4” recordings of conductor…

Montage of Jupiter and the Galilean satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, all photographed by Voyager 1.

Stars align for Holst’s "The Planets" at the Hatch Shell

On Wednesday, July 18, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra welcomes London's St. Paul's Girls' School Choir for an historic centennial performance of Holst's…

French composer Hector Berlioz died 150 years ago. He has been a lifelong favorite of the British author David Cairns, who wrote Berlioz's biography and edited and translated his memoirs.

At 92, The Man Who Wrote The Book On Berlioz Resumes His Case

To mark the sesquicentennial of the composer's death — and a new box set of recordings — Berlioz biographer David Cairns celebrates the one-time musical misfit from France.

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