Classical

“People are still writing [classical] music today, and people are performing music by living composers." This Sunday, you'll have the opportunity to hear some right before you in the home of composer Peter Petroff, in Fair Oaks Ranch.

Meet two pianists, one who plays pretty much what's on the page, the other who's tuned in to jazz as a pianist and a much wider array as a composer.

When conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya was hired as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) in the year 2000, it meant a big change for that orchestra.

Project Band will be putting on a showcase of improvised dancing along with live musicians from the ensemble Viatorum this Sunday in San Antonio.

The 20 episodes of Momentos Musicales this season are giving us an opportunity to track music and musicians from throughout Pan America as they come and go, crossing borders, at times with difficulty, and other times smooth as ice.

Remembering Leonard Bernstein's 1978 visit to Mexico, and looking forward to Gustavo Dudamel's tenure with the New York Philharmonic.

The Uruguayan composer José Serebrier was well-known in the United States when he approached the San Antonio Symphony in 1979 with a travel proposal.

For the next several episodes of Momentos Musicales we will travel alongside musicians from Latin America as they cross the border into, for want of a better description, the English-speaking countries of the Americas. We will also sample some of the musicians of English-speaking America as they tour into the Spanish-speaking Americas.

Having helped defeat Nazism in World War II, La Cadena de las Américas ceased broadcasting in 1948.

While covering the 1939 Chilean earthquake, radioman Edmund Chester began wooing his future wife, while CBS radio wooed Edmund, to start La Cadena de las Américas.