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As Terrance McKnight — host on WQXR, New York City’s classical music station — embarks on a brief leave of absence to start work on a book about race and classical music, he’s leaving listeners in good hands.  

As Terrance McKnight a?" host on WQXR, New York City's classical music station a?" embarks on a brief leave of absence to start work on a book about race and classical music, he's leaving listeners in good hands.  For five consecutive Thursday nights from October 15 a?" November 12, McKnight has invited five of his friends and fellow New Yorkers to take the host's chair and curate their own classical music playlists.  

On Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 8:00pm ET, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra presents Speaking Truth to Power, an online performance of Beethovena??s Egmont, Op. 84 featuring the world premiere of an incisive new Orpheus-commissioned English translation, adapted for the current day, by Philip Boehm.

On Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 8:00pm ET, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will present Speaking Truth to Power, an online performance of Beethoven's Egmont, Op. 84 featuring the world premiere of an incisive new Orpheus-commissioned English translation, adapted for the current day, by Philip Boehm.

On September 22, in honor of National Voter Registration Day, pianist and activist Lara Downes is releasing a video of Leonard Bernstein's song 'Take Care of This House,' from the musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Following the success of their Idagio concert in July, British a cappella ensemble The King's Singers has partnered once more with the leading streaming service for classical music to expand their 2020-21 season with four 60-minute concerts entitled The King's Singers Digital Tour.

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the support of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the 48th Istanbul Music Festival will meet with music lovers virtually between 18 September and 5 October 2020.

Today (August 4) in live streaming: LA Law is back on Stars in the House, Broadway Buskers returns, and so much more!

The Met has announced the Week 21 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure.

 For the first time ever, audiences around the world will have a special opportunity to watch the Canadian Opera Company's 2018 world premiere production of Hadrian, in full, online. On Monday, August 10 at 6:30 p.m. ET, in partnership with Montréal Pride Festival, the COC is hosting a free, one-night-only digital stream of the modern grand opera. The Hadrian Watch Party helps kick off one week of virtual Pride events and will feature a live Q&A session with both the composer and celebrated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor, a giant in Canadian theatre.

Pacific Opera Project (POP) presents a watch party of their critically acclaimed production of Madama Butterfly on July 15 at 5:00 PM Los Angeles time. This is the first true-to-story bilingual production of the opera. Performed in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo and Houston's Opera in the Heights, the opera now has a new libretto written by POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw and Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura.

Today (June 22) in live streaming: BWW Book Club is back, Andréa Burns guest hosts Stars in the House, and so much more!

This weekend (June 19) in live streaming: Jessie Mueller sings with Seth Rudetsky, and so much more!

The Met has announced the Week 15 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure. Highlights include the Met's classic 1991 telecast of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, with Kathleen Battle and Luciano Pavarotti, John Adams's Doctor Atomic starring Gerald Finley, and Massenet's Manon, with Lisette Oropesa in the title role. 

The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and Grammy Award-winning baritone Thomas Hampson's Hampsong Foundation have formed a new partnership to strengthen the work of both organizations in song research, vocal performance, and education at all levels. 

Today (June 6-7) in live streaming: Stars in the House presents Blithe Spirit, Paulo Szot salutes Broadway, and so much more!

The Met has announced the Weeks 13 and 14 schedules for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, which feature the Met's acclaimed productions of Philip Glass's Akhnaten and Satyagraha, both available to the public for the first time on the Met's streaming platforms.

IDAGIO, the leading streaming service for classical music, launches the Global Concert Hall, a new online concert venue made available to audiences worldwide. Artists and ensembles will use this audiovisual platform to offer their own exclusive digital concerts, and their audiences can support them directly from the comfort of their own homes with their ticket purchases.

The New York Philharmonic is making available two new broadcasts this week on Facebook and YouTube. This Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m. EDT, the Philharmonic will rebroadcast the 1982 Great Performances episode featuring violinist and Philharmonic Board Member Itzhak Perlman performing the Mendelssohn and Brahms Violin Concertos.

The Met has announced the Weeks 10 and 11 schedules for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure.