WSJ culture writer and arts blogger Lee Rosenbaum weighs in on the museum's new exhibit and series.

In the last five years, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has more than doubled the number of music therapists at its clinics. The VA uses music therapy to help veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, control their symptoms.

Reprinted with permission from MusicalAmerica.com

NEW YORK -- George Manahan, who has been a fixture in the pit of New York City Opera for the past 12 seasons, will add a more visible podium in 2010-11, as music director of the American Composers Orchestra.

WQXR’s new Conductor’s Choice series launches with Maestro George Manahan in the driver’s seat. Manahan will lead listeners through the symphonic cycle of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius beginning Friday, March 12 at 8p.m.

Shirley Wang, of The WSJ, talks about how music is helping stroke patients talk again.

Listen to the Orchestra of St. Luke's live broadcast from Carnegie Hall from Sunday, February 21. Conducted by Sir Roger Norrington.

WQXR is celebrating Frédéric Chopin's 200th birthday with 3 hours of special programming. The party kicks off on tonight, March 1 at 7 p.m and includes a performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto #1 in E Minor and a recital by Garrick Ohlsson.

This hour-long special features the American pianist Garrick Ohlsson, the first and only American to win the prestigious Chopin International Competition, playing a program of Chopin compositions. Monday, March 1 at 9 p.m.

Soyer was a founding member of the Guarneri Quartet and he played with the group until he retired in 2002.

Some answers from WNYC's cultural critic, Claudia La Rocco.

WQXR’s Bob Sherman is in Florida this week, listening very closely to music by the Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin.

Earlier today on WQXR, we brought you a set of variations by Johann Nepomuk Hummel on this familiar tune.

The NY Post's Elisabeth Vincentelli talks about the Royal Shakespeare Company's trip to NYC.

In 1969 George Jellinek created The Vocal Scene, a weekly, one-hour show was devoted to opera and great opera singers. In Jellinek's honor, WQXR is revisiting prized segments from the archives of The Vocal Scene.

Love and passion--from the 15th Century! For Valentine's Day early music duo Asteria performs 15th Century Burgundian love songs in the WQXR studio. Sunday, February 14, 4PM.

WQXR presents a live broadcast of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Sea Orpheus, the final concerto in a series of six comissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as companion pieces to J.S. Bach's original "Brandenburg" concerti. Saturday, February 6, 8PM.

Jon Burlingame, film music historian and writer for Variety, weighs in.

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See what WQXR hosts have to say about romance and romantic music. Then tell us about the classical music that has added romance to your life. We'll play some of your selections on Valentine's Day.

This special edition of Performance Today marks the birthdays of Franz Schubert and Philip Glass with performances of music by each composer. Sunday, January 31 at 8PM.