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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: Cellist Juliette Herlin’s debut album is out:
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: Dame Jane Glover on her Mahler 4 debut with the Fort Worth Symphony: bit.ly/4qYHzMJ
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: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas’ 16th season is ready to ‘Glow’:
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: A 40th anniversary milestone for Chamber Music International:
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
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: SMU’s commitment to cultivating tomorrow’s composers, today: bit.ly/4qE6hSF
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
KXT Public Music Meetings: bit.ly/47C0sfQ
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
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Meet the DFW composer with a brand new piano concerto:
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
Whale calls, frog croaks: A composer debuts Puerto Rico’s loss in Dallas:
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: Wilhelmina Smith’s new release featuring works by Indigenous composer/cellist Dawn Avery:
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: Guitarist Sharon Isbin and her latest release, ‘Romantico’: bit.ly/49dGIRX
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
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Maria Callas makes her Dallas return (sort of):
Angelica Negron’s passion for the unexpected:
Angelica Negron’s passion for the unexpected | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
WRR's Amy Bishop visits with composer/instrumentalist Angelica Negron, who describes her new work, 'for everything you keep losing,' set to have its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Angelica Negron’s passion for the unexpected:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: This cellist has two albums up for a GRAMMY this year:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: This cellist has two albums up for a GRAMMY this year | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Cellist Matt Haimovitz has earned a reputation as a musical pioneer in today's classical music sphere. Two albums by the internationally renowned musician were recently nominated for GRAMMYs: "Schnittke...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: This cellist has two albums up for a GRAMMY this year:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Windmills Craftworks welcomes Caribbean jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles to North Texas:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Windmills Craftworks welcomes Caribbean jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles to North Texas | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Trinidad-born trumpeter Etienne Charles fuses Caribbean melodies with jazz to create his own distinct sound. He'll bring his Creole Soul group to Windmills Craftworks in The Colony October 11-12, 2025....
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October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Windmills Craftworks welcomes Caribbean jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles to North Texas:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Tenor Jonathan Tetelman previews his Fort Worth concert:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Tenor Jonathan Tetelman previews his Fort Worth concert | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Fort Worth Opera opens its 80th anniversary season with a rare stateside appearance by internationally acclaimed tenor Jonathan Tetelman. A Deutsche Grammophon recording artist and jet-setting leading...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Tenor Jonathan Tetelman previews his Fort Worth concert:
Emilio and Dr. Sergio Espinosa, Music Director of the New Philharmonic of Irving and UT Arlington Professor, explore the expanding path of mariachi and classical music, as well as the spread of Latin music throughout the globe.
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Emilio Alvarez, Dr. Sergio Espinosa, and how teaching music keeps us young | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Emilio and Dr. Sergio Espinosa, Music Director of the New Philharmonic of Irving and UT Arlington Professor, explore the expanding path of mariachi and classical music, as well as the spread of Latin...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Emilio and Dr. Sergio Espinosa, Music Director of the New Philharmonic of Irving and UT Arlington Professor, explore the expanding path of mariachi and classical music, as well as the spread of Latin music throughout the globe.
Now in its fourth year, the Art Worth Festival has established itself as an annual arts and music destination for North Texas. In this conversation with the festival's founder Greg Belz, he talks about how Art Worth differs from the rest of the arts festivals in the region.
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: This Fort Worth art fest continues to broaden its reach | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Now in its fourth year, the Art Worth Festival has established itself as an annual arts and music destination for North Texas. In this conversation with the festival's founder Greg Belz, he talks about...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Now in its fourth year, the Art Worth Festival has established itself as an annual arts and music destination for North Texas. In this conversation with the festival's founder Greg Belz, he talks about how Art Worth differs from the rest of the arts festivals in the region.
WRR’s Emilio Alvarez, Dr. Germán Augusto Gutiérrez, and creating unity across Latin American music:
WRR’s Emilio Alvarez, Dr. Germán Augusto Gutiérrez, and creating unity across Latin American music | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
As part of WRR's Heritage Month celebration, Emilio Alvarez and Dr. German Gutierrez discuss unity across Latin American Classical (and non-classical) music and how people can be better advocates for...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
WRR’s Emilio Alvarez, Dr. Germán Augusto Gutiérrez, and creating unity across Latin American music:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Chatting with Anne Akiko Meyers head of her Texas visit:
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Chatting with Anne Akiko Meyers head of her Texas visit | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
The Waco Symphony Orchestra opens their season with GRAMMY Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, who will perform Barber's Violin Concerto in a program that also includes Rachmaninoff's Symphonic...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Chatting with Anne Akiko Meyers head of her Texas visit:
Check out our list of where to find the best pumpkin patches and fall fun in Dallas-Fort Worth. Photo: Hall's Pumpkin Farm
It’s fall y’all! Head to one of these North Texas patches to find the perfect pumpkin | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Check out our list of where to find the best pumpkin patches and fall fun in Dallas-Fort Worth. Photo: Hall's Pumpkin Farm
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September 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Check out our list of where to find the best pumpkin patches and fall fun in Dallas-Fort Worth. Photo: Hall's Pumpkin Farm
A visit with singer/actor/multi-instrumentalist Michael Cavanaugh:
A visit with singer/actor/multi-instrumentalist Michael Cavanaugh | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Michael Cavanaugh never imagined his piano bar gig would inevitably lead to being handpicked by Billy Joel to star in the Broadway musical, "Movin' Out," but that's exactly what happened one night in...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A visit with singer/actor/multi-instrumentalist Michael Cavanaugh:
Ahead of her concert at Unity Dallas on Saturday, September 6th, guitarist Xuefei Yang chats with WRR's Emilio Alvarez about her passion for the instrument, he journey that led her to international stardom, and how she uses music as a way to unite people in a divided world. bit.ly/42kSK7I
A conversation with guitarist Xuefei Yang | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Ahead of her concert at Unity Dallas on Saturday, September 6th, guitarist Xuefei Yang chats with WRR's Emilio Alvarez about her passion for the instrument, he journey that led her to international stardom,...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Ahead of her concert at Unity Dallas on Saturday, September 6th, guitarist Xuefei Yang chats with WRR's Emilio Alvarez about her passion for the instrument, he journey that led her to international stardom, and how she uses music as a way to unite people in a divided world. bit.ly/42kSK7I
WRR Classical Countdown 2025 results:
WRR Classical Countdown 2025 results | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
You voted for your favorites and we counted them back! Here are WRR listeners' favorite pieces of classical music for 2025. 1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' 2 Bach, JS: Brandenburg...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
WRR Classical Countdown 2025 results:
Spectrum Chamber Music Society was founded in 1986 to let musicians choose their own repertoire and perform in small, community settings.
East Fort Worth music group celebrates 40 years of lighting up community concerts | Classical 101.1 FM | WRR-FM
Spectrum Chamber Music Society was founded in 1986 to let musicians choose their own repertoire and perform in small, community settings.
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September 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Spectrum Chamber Music Society was founded in 1986 to let musicians choose their own repertoire and perform in small, community settings.