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Dan McHugh writes about the interview which Rob Kennedy did with conductor William Henry Curry for the August 2020 edition of My Life In Music. Photo: Michael Zirkle

John Williams, Andris Nelsons, Midori, and more. 6 p.m. Eastern

Writing in the New York Times, David Allen offers an in-depth interview with British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on music of Franz Liszt. Photo: Sophie Wright for Decca

Thibaut Garcia, Stephen Hough, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and more.

Katharina Rabillon reports in EuroNews about a recently discovered work by a 17-year-old Mozart. Photo: Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Public Domain on Wikipedia.org

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Dan McHugh writes about an interview Rob Kennedy did with composer Adolphus Hailstork on My Life In Music, February 2019. Photo: Rose Grace

Dan McHugh writes about the interview Rob Kennedy did with composer Mark Abel for the February 2021 edition of My Life In Music. Photo of Mark Abel by Erik Doria.

Dan McHugh writes about the interview Rob Kennedy did with renowned conductor JoAnn Falletta in the February 2019 edition of My Life In Music. Photo of Maestra Falletta by Heather Bellini courtesy of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

You may know Stephen Hough as a concert pianist, but you probably don’t know that he is a painter and prize-winning poet. This Renaissance man is the first classical musician to have received a MacArthur Genius Grant. Mr. Hough’s newest book, Rough Ideas, is a collection of short essays, or as I might call them, “thought pieces.” They are the result of notes about a wide range of topics that he jotted down while he was waiting—at airports, on planes, and in hotel rooms. After reading one of these essays and reflecting on it, I often felt that I had been engaged in a conversation with a warm, witty, and intelligent friend. Photo: Andrew Crowley

Francisco Salazar reports in Opera Wire that "Riccardo Muti has weighed in on the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra’s situation releasing a statement in support of the orchestra." Photo: Jonathan Tichler

In the New York Times, Patricia Cohen writes about the terrible plight in which performers find themselves.

An inspiring article by Michael Andor Brodeur in the Washington Post about composer Molly Joyce. Photo: Shervin Lainez

From Robert Jackson Wood in The New Republic: "What critics get wrong about the genre’s long-standing diversity problems"

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