Webb Wiggins is a keyboard virtuoso who has performed with a long list of top ensembles including Folger Consort, Dryden Ensemble, Kings Noyse, Chatham Baroque, Hesperus, Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, Catacoustic Consort, Baltimore Consort, Apollo’s Fire, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony. Today’s Beautiful Music features Webb Wiggins playing THE CARMAN’S WHISTLE, William

June 14 is our annual celebration of Flag Day in the United States. It was on this date in 1777 that our flag was adopted by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. Use the link below to learn more about the holiday. Today’s Beautiful Music features The Star-Spangled Banner, sung a cappella by the delightful, pure-toned

Old meets New today! My Beautiful Music offering features a new composition by a contemporary composer that features an instrument more closely associated with the baroque era. It’s Caroline Shaw’s Concerto for Harpsichord from a March 2024 Sound Salon performance. The musicians are violinists Rachell Ellen Wong and Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro, violist Andrew Gonzalez, cellist

Composer Jake Heggie was commissioned to write a chamber composition to celebrate flutist Carol Wincenc’s Golden Anniversary year as a performer. Today’s Beautiful Music is the World Premiere performance of that work, called FULL CIRCLE FIFTY. The February 2020 performance features the dedicatee, Carol Wincenc, composer Jake Heggie as pianist, and cellist Brook Speltz. There

Jonathan Woody is an extraordinary bass-baritone singer, as well as a composer. Today’s Beautiful Music is a captivating chamber performance of NOR SHAPE OF TODAY composed by Jonathan Woody, based on a poem by Poem by Raquel Salas Rivera. The performers are mezzo-soprano Hailey McAvoy, violist Andrew Gonzalez, and pianist Byron Schenkman. Use the links

American countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo (ARC) sings in productions ranging from operas with acclaimed companies and festivals, to solo recitals, to cabaret with Justin Vivian Bond. His MYTHS series highlights the “personal, historic, and cultural dimensions of the mythic.” (Use the link below to learn more about MYTHS.) Today’s Beautiful Music features Anthony Roth Costanzo from

Byron Schenkman is a versatile and talented instrumentalist. The keyboard virtuoso plays harpsichord, piano, and fortepiano, and is a scholar of Historical Performance who pursued their musical training at New England Conservatory of Music and The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. I will have the honor of interviewing Byron Schenkman in a few days

King Frederick the Great of Prussia is known for many things, but did you know he was also an avid music lover and an accomplished musician? He surrounded himself with some of the top musicians of his day, he played the flute, and he composed music, too! Today’s Beautiful Music is a performance of King