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Today’s Beautiful Music features an extraordinarily talented and versatile musician — Hazel Scott. She was born in Trinidad in 1920, and moved to New York City as a child, and she demonstrated precocious talent as a pianist and singer. At age 8 she became a scholarship student at The Juilliard School. Classical and jazz music […]

Italian singer Paolo Bordogna is an acclaimed bass-baritone whose honors include winning the 2000 “Caruso” Competition. He has performed internationally, including at ROH Covent Garden, Opèra de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Real de Madrid, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wexford Opera Festival, Sydney Opera House, and Washington National Opera, to name just a few. Today’s Beautiful Music

American composer, university professor and civil rights activist Zenobia Powell Perry was a musician born in Boley, Oklahoma in 1908. She pursued her musical studies at Tuskegee Institute, where she earned her Bachelor of Music Education degree. Zenobia Powell Perry then went on to study with Darius Milhaud at Wyoming University and in Aspen, Colorado.

Frederick Ballentine is a Grammy Award-winning American tenor from Norfolk, Virginia. He was also the 2021 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Marian Anderson Award, among many other prestigious honors. Frederick (Freddie) Ballentine has performed with numerous opera companies, including Opera Vlaanderen, the English National Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera and Washington National Opera.

The Summer Solstice arrives today, making this the longest day of the year and the beginning of the summer season in the northern hemisphere. To mark the occasion, today’s Beautiful Music is a steamy, gorgeous Metropolitan Opera performance by Golda Schulz of the beloved aria SUMMERTIME from the opera PORGY AND BESS. You can also

Harpsichordist Andrew Appel is artistic director of the Four Nations Ensemble. In October of 2020 the internationally acclaimed musician gave a solo performance for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit’s webcast series, CameraMusic. He performed music by Louis Couperin, Johann Jakob Froberger, Georg Böhm, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Andrew Appel’s marvelous performance

From the SalonEra series featuring baroque oboe player Debra Nagy and her group, Les Delices, today’s Beautiful Music is SalonEra episode 3.4 called No Straight Answers. It’s an exploration of baroque opera and gender. The featured performers from this January 2023 release are Elijah McCormack and Vicki St. Pierre with Les Delices. The episode also

Hippolyte et Aricie is an opera by French baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. Premiered in 1733, it was the 50 year old composer’s first opera, after a lifelong, successful career as a music theory expert and composer of harpsichord music. Today’s Beautiful Music is a CHACONNE from Hippolyte et Aricie played by oboist Debra Nagy, violinists

Josh Lee is a virtuoso musician — a viola da gamba player with a long list of accomplishments. The Peabody Conservatory graduate has played with top early music groups such as Musica Pacifica, Les Délices, Four Nations Ensemble, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, TENET, Pacific Music Works, American Bach Soloists, Orchester

Agave Baroque is a terrific ensemble based in California. They are not only fine musicians, they are innovators in crafting interesting and meaningful programs. Their Grammy-nominated 2021 album AMERICAN ORIGINALS: A NEW WORLD – A NEW CANON featured the brilliant countertenor Reginald Mobley singing a varied program of music by Florence Price, Scott Joplin, Justin