VIDEO PODCAST: Women Composers - Our special hour-long illustrated feature on women composers includes contributions from Diana Ambache, Gail Wein, Hilary Tann, Natalie Artemas-Polak and Victoria Bond.
FROM ROME: Keep in touch with the Italian opera and classical music scene by reading Giuseppe Pennisi's regular reports.
VIDEO PODCAST: New Recordings - Find out about Adrian Williams, Andriy Lehki, African Pianism, Heinrich Schütz and Walter Arlen, and meet Stephen Sutton of Divine Art Recordings, conductor Kenneth Woods, composer Graham Williams and others.
Midnight Ice Cream - Maria Nockin tells the story of a bus driver who lands a job working for an opera company
A Chorus of Dissent - Ros Bethan illustrates her own musical poem
The Life of Antonio Vivaldi - Susan Budig's short poem about Venice's 'Red Priest', composed in the form of a classical rondeau
A Vision of Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8 - A poem by J Jean Mayfield
Ask Alice - On parents and prose style, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Lust in A Major - Marsha Cappy's tale takes place in Prague in 1905 ...
Movements - Not quite a review - but ... with Kelly Ferjutz
Nota Bene - K C Devereaux tells the story of the second best piano student in the class
Beethoven's Ninth Solstice - A poem by Debra A Hoffmann
The Piano - A short story by Kelly Ferjutz
To everything there is a season - A short story by Jenna Orkin of wtceo.org
Ensemble. Mystic chanting - Elica Lupus-Popescu journeys to hear the lost pipers of Iasi
Music - a short story by Elizabeth Dobbs