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After founding the quietly influential band Ash Ra Tempel at 17 years old, Göttsching would go on to have an enormous influence on the trajectory of electronic and dance music.

Guillermo del Toro's new film, Pinocchio, hovers between joy and sadness. So does the music by French composer Alexandre Desplat — performed, appropriately, entirely on wooden instruments.

Jude Foxall discovers classical music through a somewhat nontraditional symphony orchestra.

Soprano Nicole Cabell will be the first to tell you that a great career doesn’t happen overnight. It is a combination of all your successes and failures. Find out more in the latest episode of the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.

The St. Olaf Christmas Festival has become one of the nation's most cherished holiday celebrations. Listen now as the Northfield-based college presents its 2022 program, “Promise of Peace,” from Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, with host Valerie Kahler, in this one-hour special.

In this week’s New Classical Tracks, male a cappella ensemble Cantus shares its new holiday recording ‘Into the Light,’ which was recorded during the dark times of the pandemic.

This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with host Lynne Warfel, features great classic Christmas movies including ‘Elf’ and ‘The Preacher’s Wife.’ In the second hour, we take an in-depth look at Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ including songs that Frank Capra cut from the movie. Listen now!

Over three days in mid-November, the Voces8 Scholars, the U.S.-based training ensemble for the U.K.’s esteemed Voces8, recorded two Christmas songs prepared exclusively for YourClassical MPR listeners as part of our Carol Countdown. Watch now!

Discover a broad spectrum of this year's most compelling classical music, from booby-trapped string quartets and chilled-out piano to full-throttle percussion, electric guitars and high-flying vocals.

Ukraine's culture minister said his country's allies could stop Russia from weaponizing its culture by temporarily boycotting Russian artists, including The Nutcracker composer Tchaikovsky.