Frédéric Chopin suffered from a variety of health problems, but one may have been overlooked until now: Temporal-lobe epilepsy. Recently published research offers a new development in the ongoing quest to diagnose the Polish composer.

Days after undergoing emergency surgery, Riccardo Muti has won Grammy Awards in the Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance categories for his recording of the Verdi Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The Yale Glee Club is celebrating its 150th anniversary this weekend. Alumna Naomi Lewin returned to her alma mater to speak to fellow glee club members and trace the history of the group, its camaraderie and choral arrangements over a diverse repertoire.

Throughout February, we're honoring Black History Month with selections from the WQXR archives that recognize African American artists. In this 2002 interview, the late host George Jellinek sits down with star mezzo Grace Bumbry.

In honor of Black History Month, we're featuring selections from the WQXR archive with great African American artists. Here the late host George Jellinek reaches into his own vaults for a 1996 RCA Victor-produced interview with Leontyne Price.

Listening to classical music is frequently a social activity and even a romantic one. But not everyone agrees on which type of experience can best spark feelings of passion. Take our poll.

The New York Pops and American Airlines announced a new deal that will have the country's largest independent pops orchestra streaming on American's inflight channels.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti sustained "multiple facial and jaw fractures" last week in a fall from the podium. "It's a wait and see situation," said an orchestra spokeswoman.

The New York Philharmonic have announced a 2011-12 season that includes a Beethoven symphony cycle, a new residency by violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann and a nomadic touring schedule.

The prize is a gift certificate to Le Perigord and two tickets for Il Giardino Armonico at Zankel Hall.

Everyone knows that classical music fans are born romantics. In advance of Valentine's Day, we want to hear your personal story. Tell us how classical music has added romance to your life.

Enter to win a gift certificate for two to the restaurant Le Perigord and tickets to hear the early-music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico at Zankel Hall on Feb. 24.

New York state Senator Carl Kruger has introduced legislation to make it illegal to use an electronic device while crossing a city street on foot. What do you think about the practice of walking and listening to classical music? Take our poll.

Today, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will give the premiere of Jake Heggie's song cycle The Breaking Waves. Check out a series of photos that DiDonato took that were inspired by Heggie's music.

Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, died on Sunday. He was the subject of these two special shows with David Garland in the early 1990s.

The lights have gone down at the Cairo Opera House, one of the African continent's most celebrated venues for classical and contemporary music, as unrest in Egypt continues.

With the opening of John Adams's Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera this week, New York audiences will finally have a chance to hear the work that spawned a flurry of operas based on real-life events -- the so-called “CNN operas."

Milton Babbitt, a composer known for his staggeringly complex yet lucid, jazzy and occasionally humorous work, died on Saturday in Princeton, NJ. He was 94.

Sondra Radvanovsky is the current star of the Metropolitan Opera's production of Tosca, which airs live on WQXR this Saturday. She stopped by to present some of her favorite Toscas and discuss how they’ve inspired her.

In commemoration of Mozart's 255th Birthday, WQXR is presenting an all-day celebration of his music. Yet beyond the radio and concert hall, there are plenty of more unusual uses for his great works two centuries later -- from sewage treatment to egg production.