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Romance your Valentine at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with the impassioned music of Tchaikovsky’s timeless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Valentine’s weekend at the symphony | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Romance your Valentine at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with the impassioned music of Tchaikovsky’s timeless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
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January 27, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The Fort Worth organization is best known for its international piano competition. The inaugural conducting competition will take place in 2028 in Houston.
Move over piano. The Cliburn announces a new competition for conductors. | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
The Fort Worth organization is best known for its international piano competition. The inaugural conducting competition will take place in 2028 in Houston.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM
PHOTOS: KXT Homegrown Concert unites community at House of Blues:
PHOTOS: KXT Homegrown Concert unites community at House of Blues
Check out the scenes from the stacked lineup that brought together all genres of Homegrown music from all over North Texas, celebrating Homegrown Bites Vol. II.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Emilio Alvarez and Principal Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Presents, Enrico Lopez-Yañez, discuss the upcoming Dallas Symphony program La Vida Loca with Latin Pops music from the 90s and early 2000s.
Love classical music AND Latin pop? Here’s a preview of DSO’s La Vida Loca program in January | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Emilio Alvarez and Principal Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Presents, Enrico Lopez-Yañez, discuss the upcoming Dallas Symphony program La Vida Loca with Latin Pops music from the 90s and early 2000s.
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January 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Fresh off his 2025 Cliburn Gold Medal win, pianist Aristo Sham returns to Texas to perform Brahms’ First Piano Concerto with the Waco Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Larry Loh, on Thursday, January 22nd.
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Catching up with Cliburn gold medalist Aristo Sham ahead of his Texas return | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Fresh off his 2025 Cliburn Gold Medal win, pianist Aristo Sham returns to Texas to perform Brahms’ First Piano Concerto with the Waco Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Larry Loh, on Thursday,...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In their new American special, BBC’s Radio 3 explores music in Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Boston and L.A.
BBC takes an American roadtrip to explore Dallas-Fort Worth’s music scene | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
In their new American special, BBC’s Radio 3 explores music in Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Boston and L.A.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Emilio Alvarez and DSO Music Director Fabio Luisi discuss Bruckner’s 9th Symphony:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Emilio Alvarez and DSO Music Director Fabio Luisi discuss Bruckner’s 9th Symphony | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Ahead of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's performance of Bruckner's 9th Symphony, January 15-16, 2026, DSO Music Director, Fabio Luisi sits down with WRR's Emilio Alvarez to discuss the enigmatic composer...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
In an evening of classical Christmas carols performed by Dallas String Quartet, to a genre-crossing repertoire of more contemporary holiday tunes, Ion Zanca describes Christmas at the Winspear as a pop/rock holiday spectacular.
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: The debut of DFW’s newest holiday tradition | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
In an evening of classical Christmas carols performed by Dallas String Quartet, to a genre-crossing repertoire of more contemporary holiday tunes, Ion Zanca describes Christmas at the Winspear as a pop/rock...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: This young conductor got the call, and she delivered:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: This young conductor got the call, and she delivered | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
WRR weekend host Brooke Scholl sits down with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's assistant conductor Shira Samuels-Shragg to unpack her remarkable, last-minute debut leading the Dallas Symphony Orchestra...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Cellist Juliette Herlin’s debut album is out:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Cellist Juliette Herlin’s debut album is out | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Praised for her “impressive artistry” and “wonderful bowing technique” (San Francisco Classical Voice), French cellist Juliette Herlin has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Dame Jane Glover on her Mahler 4 debut with the Fort Worth Symphony: bit.ly/4qYHzMJ
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Dame Jane Glover on her Mahler 4 debut with the Fort Worth Symphony | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Ahead of her debut as Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor, acclaimed British conductor Dame Jane Glover chatted with Amy Bishop about her lifelong dream of conducting Mahler's 4th...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas’ 16th season is ready to ‘Glow’:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas’ 16th season is ready to ‘Glow’ | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
From music by Mozart, to Steve Reich, to Chet Baker, Bruce Wood Dance's season opener should live up to its title: "Glow." In this conversation with WRR's Amy Bishop, BWD Artistic Director Joy Bollinger...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: A 40th anniversary milestone for Chamber Music International:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: A 40th anniversary milestone for Chamber Music International | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Dallas-based Chamber Music International presents three all-star musicians– violinist Cho-Liang Lin, cellist Clive Greensmith, and pianist Jon Kimura Parker – for an evening of works by Brahms and...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: SMU’s commitment to cultivating tomorrow’s composers, today: bit.ly/4qE6hSF
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: SMU’s commitment to cultivating tomorrow’s composers, today | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
The Emerging Sounds concert, presented by Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, has been described as a vibrant representation of what SMU composition students have to offer. The...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
KXT Public Music Meetings: bit.ly/47C0sfQ
KXT’s Public Music Meetings
KXT's Public Music Meetings give you a chance to hear unreleased music and determine which new songs will be added to our rotation.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Meet the DFW composer with a brand new piano concerto:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Meet the DFW composer with a brand new piano concerto | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Arsentiy Kharitonov, a composer and pianist based here in North Texas, has just had his impressive and dramatic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra recorded with the Kandinsky Symphony Orchestra and released...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Whale calls, frog croaks: A composer debuts Puerto Rico’s loss in Dallas:
Whale calls, frog croaks: A composer debuts Puerto Rico’s loss in Dallas | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Whale calls. Glaciers melting. Frog croaks. These are sounds audiences might not expect in an orchestral concert hall but were featured in last week’s world premiere of Angélica Negrón’s For Everything...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Wilhelmina Smith’s new release featuring works by Indigenous composer/cellist Dawn Avery:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Wilhelmina Smith’s new release featuring works by Indigenous composer/cellist Dawn Avery | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Wilhelmina Smith is regarded as a cellist whose artistic mission embraces a conversation through music, one that enthusiastically encompasses the music of the present placed within the context of a living...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Guitarist Sharon Isbin and her latest release, ‘Romantico’: bit.ly/49dGIRX
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Guitarist Sharon Isbin and her latest release, ‘Romantico’ | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Hailed as the "Monet of the classical guitar" by Atlanta Journal, Sharon Isbin is a longtime fixture in the genre with multiple GRAMMY awards and an ever-growing list of accolades. WRR's Brooke Scholl...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Maria Callas makes her Dallas return (sort of):
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Maria Callas makes her Dallas return (sort of) | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
In November 1957, the Dallas Civic Opera (now The Dallas Opera) officially opened with a headlining concert starring Maria Callas at the State Fair Music Hall (now Music Hall at Fair Park). Audiences...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM