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San Antonio musicians Kevin Salfen and Richard Novak recently released a recording of their song cycle "Stations of Mychal," about Mychal Judge, chaplain for the NYC Fire Department on 9/11. TPR's Barry Brake learns more about this moving project to honor the fallen hero.

This program includes music by Manuel de Falla, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, and many more passionate sounds, all performed live on Feb. 13 by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Duarte, guitarist Isaac Bustos, and cellist Mihai Marica.

Drummer Herlin Riley has been playing the drums since he was a toddler. The sound and feel of his native New Orleans is in his soul, and on the bandstand.…

Hear pianist Daniela Liebman perform music by Robert Schumann and Philip Glass as she and the San Antonio Philharmonic's Music Director, Jeffrey Kahane, preview their season-opener.

This weekend's program with Camerata San Antonio brings quintets by two composers who fought the Soviet regime through hidden themes in their music.

The Heart of Texas Concert Band presents a program of music composed or arranged by Philip Sparke, an English musician who writes at a very high level.

The Classical Music Insitute's chamber music series brought a program inspired by a new exhibit of art by Amalia Mesa-Bains at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Listen to this concert, recorded Oct. 4, 2024 and featuring music by Robert Schumann, Juan Pablo Contreras, Gabriela Ortiz, and more composers.

Tatiana Dorokhova not only won the Silver Medal at the 2024 Gurwitz International Piano Competition, she also was voted audience favorite. The pianist will be performing a free concert on Sunday, Oct. 13 at San Fernando Cathedral, and stopped by TPR this week to give us a preview, live on KPAC 88.3 FM.

The San Antonio Philharmonic's Music Director, Jeffrey Kahane, joins host Barry Brake in our performance studio at the piano to guide you through Beethoven's most famous piece, making surprising connections along the way! Listen to the full segment at the link for a fascinating musical illustration of this piece, which Kahane says is more than music—"it is a statement of belief in some fundamental human values." The SA Phil performs Beethoven's Ninth on Nov. 16 & 17.

Stephen Sondheim took American musical theater to places it had never gone before through harmonic invention, and of course, in his lyrics. The Library of Congress recently acquired materials from Sondheim's estate—and TPR's James Baker interviewed the man tasked with overseeing the collection, Mark Horowitz.