WRR’s Kurt Rongey spoke with Nicholas Kendall, Charles Yang, and Ranaan Meyer, members of Time for Three, to learn more about their group and about the Grammy winning work “Contact” by Kevin Puts....

The Escher String Quartet performs Monday as part of the Dallas Chamber Music Society's 82nd season.

After more than four decades at the helm, a North Texas musical era is coming to a close as Plano Symphony Orchestra Music Director Hector Guzman prepares to step down at the end of this season. But filling...

Fresh from his triumph as Gold Medalist of the 2025 Cliburn Competition, pianist Aristo Sham returns to Fort Worth to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in a...

1 Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 2 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' 3 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue 4 Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World' 5 Bach, JS:...

In this feature, WRR's Emilio Alvarez looks at how AI is changing the way local colleges teach music. He spoke with the deans at three North Texas music schools: SMU, UNT and TCU , to learn more about...

As the first-licensed radio station in Texas and the second-oldest in the country, WRR celebrated 105 years of service to North Texas.on August 5th, 2026. WRR's Kurt Rongey sat down with John Slate and...

Scott Tixier is a world-renowned jazz violinist who has recorded with music legends like Stevie Wonder, Beyonce and Elton John to name a few. The French-born musician talks with WRR's Amy Bishop and unpacks...

One of the pre-eminent Hollywood composers is a professor here in North Texas, Bruce Broughton, who in addition to that music from Silverado, wrote the scores for Homeward Bound, Tombstone, The Rescuers...

Ahead of WRR's 105th anniversary of the first licensed radio station in Texas, the Texas Broadcast Museum featured us in a recent publication: tx broadcast museum wrr anniv. aug 2026Download

From the North Texas premiere of Derrick Wang's Scalia/Ginsburg in the fall, to a Rossini classic at Bass Performance Hall in the spring, Fort Worth Opera continues its 8-decades-long legacy of bringing...

You voted for your favorite opera arias, and we counted back them back during June!

This spring, The Dallas Opera named David Lomelí its general director and CEO. And as we'll learn from Kurt Rongey's conversation with him, he's a man of many talents and interests.

It's the time of year when many local arts groups are on break for summer, but the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Fort Worth has been a summer staple for classical music fans for nearly 30 years. This...

Comedy and whimsy for the summer, followed by tragedy in the fall - Shakespeare Dallas' Jenni Stewart joins WRR's Amy Bishop for a deep dive into the rabbit hole of this year's Shakespeare in the Park,...

As Ian Derrer steps down as General Director and CEO of The Dallas Opera, he joins WRR's Amy Bishop for a wide-ranging conversation about leadership, the evolving role of opera in modern culture, and...

The Dallas Opera welcomes back David Lomelí, this time as its new director and CEO. Though Lomelí is coming off of a five year stint at the Santa Fe Opera, he has more than a decade of experience working...

You voted for your favorite marches and we counted them back during the month of March! Here are the results: 1 Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever2 Williams: Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back3...

The 2026 honorees are Nancy Carlson and Andy Smith, who have been committed to volunteerism and arts leadership in Dallas for decades. They joined Maura Sheffler, TACA’s Donna Wilhelm Family President...

In this podcast, WRR's Kurt Rongey spoke to Scott Yoo, conductor, violinist and TV host for the PBS classical music documentary series Now Hear This. They discuss how Anthony Bourdain influenced the show,...

In a recent podcast conversation, WRR host Brooke Scholl speaks with Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth Artistic Director and violinist Gary Levinson about the ensemble’s May 9 season finale and the...

Composer Steve Hackman will conduct his Stravinsky X Kendrick Lamar program on April 25.

Theatre3 is bringing a brand new stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie's beloved murder mystery with all the twists, turns and unexpected endings that an Agatha-phile could...

There's a reason that this series received D Magazine's most recent "Best of Big D" award for best summer music series - because nothing else compares!

Aurora's Video Art Night is an annual exhibition of video artworks presented in unexpected public spaces in North Texas. The showcase spotlights innovative regional and national talent while transforming...

Broadway legend Brian Stokes Mitchell is the recipient of SMU's 2026 Meadows Award , recognizing an artist of national or international renown who has soared to the utmost height of their profession....

North Texas-based composer and VOCES8 Composer in Residence Taylor Scott Davis describes his new Requiem as being "a Requiem for our time. It’s about sitting with one another in grief and in hope without...

North Texas audiences will travel back in time through the 1950s, 60s, and 70s with a groovy fundraiser for Bruce Wood Dance, then look forward to the company's big season finale in June 2026.

"People laugh, but I was in kindergarten when I chose to be a music teacher," says Pamela Jenkins, who did end up becoming a music teacher - and has been so for 35 years. Dallas Symphony Orchestra named...

When a lead singer called in sick before showtime, the race began to replace him.

Musical composer and conductor, David Itkin, sits down with classical music station WRR 101.1 host, Brooke Scholl, and talk growing up with music, his latest book and much more.

Rising star violinist Alexi Kenney and Principal Guest Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera Daniele Rustioni join together for one of the most-performed 20th century masterpieces. From the first note,...

Dallas Opera General Director and CEO Ian Derrer's day began with a phone call that no General Director wants to receive on the day of a performance -the lead role in that evening's production of Don...

WRR's Emilio Alvarez is joined by Leonidas Kavakos, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Artist-in-Residence, to discuss his three-pronged career as a world-renowned violinist, his new life as an educator,...

In a new album, the Ukranian-born, New York-based pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi channels the horror and hope he's felt since Russia's incursion.

The radio program airs on nearly 200 stations across the country, including WRR 101.1 FM in Dallas

Two of the oldest forms of performing arts unite in Fort Worth when Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Theater Center present "Shakespeare at the Symphony."

Ian Derrer announced he will lead the Canadian Opera Company when his current contract expires

The saxophonist is among the contributors to "Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico" which is up for Best Latin Jazz Album.

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Romance your Valentine at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with the impassioned music of Tchaikovsky’s timeless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

The Fort Worth organization is best known for its international piano competition. The inaugural conducting competition will take place in 2028 in Houston.

Emilio Alvarez and Principal Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Presents, Enrico Lopez-Yañez, discuss the upcoming Dallas Symphony program La Vida Loca with Latin Pops music from the 90s and early 2000s.

Fresh off his 2025 Cliburn Gold Medal win, pianist Aristo Sham returns to Texas to perform Brahms’ First Piano Concerto with the Waco Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Larry Loh, on Thursday,...

In their new American special, BBC’s Radio 3 explores music in Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Boston and L.A.

Ahead of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's performance of Bruckner's 9th Symphony, January 15-16, 2026, DSO Music Director, Fabio Luisi sits down with WRR's Emilio Alvarez to discuss the enigmatic composer...

In an evening of classical Christmas carols performed by Dallas String Quartet, to a genre-crossing repertoire of more contemporary holiday tunes, Ion Zanca describes Christmas at the Winspear as a pop/rock...

WRR weekend host Brooke Scholl sits down with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's assistant conductor Shira Samuels-Shragg to unpack her remarkable, last-minute debut leading the Dallas Symphony Orchestra...