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Host Mikaela Lefrak chats with directors at Opera Vermont and Opera Company of Middlebury as well as ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý Classical's Helen Lyons on recent opera news around Vermont.

This hour, we listen back to a special presentation of the podcast Timeline from ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý Classical. In this show, host James Stewart shares with listeners the music and life story of Julius Eastman, an openly gay Black composer whose music is only now being rediscovered.Broadcast at noon and 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023; originally broadcast on Feb. 20, 2023.

The Hollywood playlist of Latino film composers includes Maria Grever, Agustín Lara, Lalo Schifrin, Gustavo Santaolalla, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Germaine Franco.

VPR Classical is excited to present a special two-hour Juneteenth broadcast of Damien Geter's powerful, An African American Requiem

David Feurzeig used to fly to venues to perform piano concerts. After giving up air travel, he has decided to launch a tour that will bring him to all 251 Vermont cities and towns for free community concerts.

Montpelier native Eric Brooks will be filling in as guest host of the VPR Choral Hour while VPR Classical host Linda Radtke takes some time away from the program.

This week on the VPR Choral Hour, host Eric Brooks features beloved works by English and Irish Composers, including singalong of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in g.

Middlebury's Mahaney Arts Center hosted the New England premiere of an exciting new work by Richard Danielpour, commissioned by Music From Copland House. Performed by mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the Music From Copland House ensemble, the work is a setting of poetry by U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove.

Discover the life, music and legacy of Ethopian composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou the "Honky-Tonk Nun."

The music of Nigerian composer Fela Sowande provided a voice for Nigerian people entering a Western world. Sowande is an internationally recognized African composer and was called the father of Nigerian art music.