YC Story - Randi Hacker

Randi Hacker exposes unreleased lyrics to all your familiar favorites. 


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Randi Hacker sings new words to old tunes

NDSU Challey School of Music performs 'Messiah'

For the first time since 2015, the North Dakota State University Challey School of Music performed its annual holiday tradition ‘Messiah’ at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Minneapolis in late 2022. Listen now to that performance for Easter.


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Listen to Handel’s 'Messiah,' performed by North Dakota State University singers and orchestra

Where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music, with host Vernon Neal.

Rhapsody in Black - March 30, 2023

Vernon Neal is the host of the podcast ‘Rhapsody in Black,’ where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music.


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Vernon Neal

Composer and educator William Dawson dedicated his life to the promotion and cultivation of Black American music traditions.  Find out more in the latest episode of the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast. 


Tuskegee University Archives

William Dawson never doubted the possibilities of our music

Jeffrey Yelverton is a digital producer of classical music for Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media. He supports the digital portfolio of MPR/APM by creating original content and providing production support for YourClassical Storytime, New Classical Tracks and various seasonal events.


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Jeffrey Yelverton

This week, ‘From the Top’ will feature four talented young musicians who are disabled or neurodivergent. Acclaimed violinists Itzhak Perlman, who performs while seated following a childhood bout with polio, and Julia LaGrand will perform and guest-host alongside host Peter Dugan.


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Itzhak Perlman joins 'From the Top' as it features disabled and neurodivergent musicians

Saturday Cinema - March 25, 2023

Lynne has been at this radio thing since 1984 when she fell into an historic job at KFAC AM and FM, the commercial classical station in Los Angeles.  She was the first woman staff announcer in the station's history, and it was such big news back then, it made the LA newspapers and national radio publications.  She is thrilled women in radio is no longer newsworthy.


Lynne Warfel

This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with host Lynne Warfel, is the second of two listener request shows this month and features listeners’ favorite tracks. Listen now!


March Listener Requests, Part 2

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Monika Evstatieva

The Queen's Cartoonists is a jazz band with elements of classical music, comedy and clowning that performs music live to animation, both old and contemporary.  


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The Queen's Cartoonists: Where jazz meets animation and hints of musical circus 

Tom Huizenga

A new collection of recordings finally freed from the vaults offers a chance to hear one of opera's greatest artists sing Wagner, Strauss, Berlioz and more. 


Decca Archives

Jessye Norman soars again in trove of unreleased recordings 

Friday Favorites - 03242023

On this episode of Friday Favorites, for March 24, 2023, guest host Steve Seel plays Adolf Shulz-Evler’s Arabesque on Themes of ‘On the Beautiful Blue Danube,’ continues St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with more Irish music and plays a request for ‘a short piece that will wake anyone up’. 


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Friday Favorites: Steve Seel, Shulz-Evler's Arabesque and more Irish music

YC Story - Michael Gleason

Gleason shares one high school memory that has never faded. 


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Michael Gleason's affinity for classical music is 'cast in stone'

New Classical Tracks - Hélène Grimaud (Extended)

New Classical Tracks - Hélène Grimaud

Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wis. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and also produces New Classical Tracks, a weekly podcast critiquing a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays and 5:15 p.m. Fridays.


Julie Amacher

In this week’s New Classical Tracks, French pianist Hélène Grimaud pays homage to one of Ukraine’s greatest living composers, Valentin Silvestrov, on her latest recording, ‘Silvestrov: Silent Songs.’ 


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