WQXR unveils a viral ad campaign to promote November as Beethoven Awareness Month and thus draws attention to classical music's famous composer. Beethoven Awareness Calendar of Eve...

In a 1948 Halloween broadcast, a "recurrent nightmare" is played out in full: What would WQXR be like if it were part of a "big, great, wonderful network," broadcasting from "WQXR City?"

One of classical music's reigning power couples, David Finckel and Wu Han run a concert series, a festival, a record label and separate performing careers. Watch them perform in the WQXR Café.

In celebration of our 75th anniversary, we’ve culled our archive of interviews and shows for some of the most recognizable voices from the station’s past.

What if you could travel through time with Ludwig van Beethoven? In this meta exercise we explore non-linear time travel in the Beethoven Time Machine!

This November, WQXR is giving itself over to “the one.” Beethoven’s music – monumental and personal, awe-inspiring and soul-touching, intimately familiar yet ever-ripe for discovery – encompasses so many facets of the human spirit.

The mezzo-soprano reveals how she came to master bel canto opera, art song recitals and television.

WQXR has seen a lot of notable figures walk through its doors. In 1949, Igor Stravinsky stopped by to give an "aural program note" for his then-newly-composed ballet, Orpheus.

Saturday marks the 200th birthday of the restless Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. In celebration, WQXR presents a round-up of new Liszt recordings that run a particularly wide gamut.

Watch the rising young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang perform the colorful music of Albéniz in the WQXR Café.

In celebration of our 75th anniversary, we’ve culled our archive of interviews and shows for some of the most recognizable voices from the station’s past.

For this Saturday’s cartoon we present the Neapolitan song, “Faniculi, Fanicula” by Luigi Denza and performed by Luciano Pavarotti (shown below with the Three Tenors).

In 1951, WQXR gave the first-ever radio broadcast of a Carnegie Hall recital by the piano giant Vladimir Horowitz. Listen to it here.

Although Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance is most familiar to people as the march played during graduation ceremonies it also had a prominent place in Disney’s Fantasia 2000.

HOW TO ENTER: No purchase or pledge necessary. Entries may be made on the Great Voices Contest page between the hours of 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, and 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 Eastern Standard Time.

ELIGIBILITY: Anyone 18 years of age or older can enter the Great Voices Contest except employees of WQXR and its related organizations, their immediate family or persons living in the same household. Void where prohibited by law.

PRIZE: QCard, the WQXR member discount card, valued at $75.

SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION OF WINNER: One winner will be selected by random drawing no later than 6 p.m. Wednesday of each week beginning, Oct. 12, 2011, through Dec. 7, 2011. Winner will be notified by telephone or email. Prize will be shipped by mail. The chances of winning are dependent upon the number of entries. A list with the winner’s name will be kept on file at WQXR and are available by writing WQXR Listener Services, 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013.

GENERAL: By participating in the Great Voices Contest, participants agree to the Official Rules, and that WQXR, its agents and employees will have no liability whatsoever for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind resulting from their use of the prize or their participation in the give-away. Prize is nontransferable and cannot be exchanged for cash. There can be no substitutions for a prize. WQXR Radio may use winner’s name for publicity purposes without further compensation.

RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions may apply. By participating in the Great Voices Contest, a participant agrees to be bound by these Official Rules, and by all decisions of the contest judges. One entry per person per weekly contest, Oct. 12, 2011 to Dec. 6, 2011. Anyone who enters multiple times will be disqualified.

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In celebration of our 75th anniversary, we’ve culled our archive of interviews and shows for some of the most recognizable voices from the station’s past.

The Morehouse College Glee Club performs a sold-out concert in The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at 7 pm. WQXR's Terrance McKnight hosts the performance and conversation. Watch ...

This Saturday’s cartoon features the cat-and-mouse slapstick duo of Tom and Jerry, this time at a Metropolitan Opera performance of Carmen. Where the cartoon was "shot," however, is a...

Did you know that WQXR used to have its own, in-house string quartet? Take a stroll through the WQXR audio and visual archives which has been digitally preserved.