Meet Founding Father Francis Hopkinson, America's First Composer! (Maybe!)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of good music must be in want of a book.

The winding of a river, an old tale made new, and a Zombieland crush. A typical September here on the Instant Replay.

Centuries before there was an "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" on September 19, composers already were!

Following its world premiere in 2021, a nearly forgotten work by Leonard Bernstein has now been released on a commercial recording, along with an additional movement of the piece discovered in 2022 and rarely heard music by Bernstein’s mentor, Aaron Copland.

It's officially a month to celebrate the music you love!

Just like the rest of us, composers have always tried to find moments of peace, and they even wrote it into some of their music.

If summer is the season of happy-go-lucky "meet-cutes," pop-anthem "bangers," and toe-tapping "go-to jams," then IR 52, play on!

The song got it right: “The hills ARE alive with the sound of music!”

Eldbjørg Hemsing plays selections from "Arctic," as well as Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and more, with pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, November 13 at 7:30pm at GBH's Fraser Performance Studio.