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Last week, the composer Robert Sirota was in town for the premiere of a new work. He sat down with painter and long-time friend Simon Dinnerstein to…

Each Tuesday evening at 6:00, Classical 90.5 broadcasts the Missouri Symphony Orchestra Radio Hour. The program features interviews and highlights from…

This week's guests on Intermission are three instrumentalists who have played with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra. These performers are also area music…

A recent episode of Mizzou Music featured interviews with two newcomers to the MU School of Music and one longtime educator in the…

As NPR's Southwest correspondent based in Austin, Texas, John Burnett covers immigration, border affairs, Texas news and other national assignments. In 2018, 2019 and again in 2020, he won national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for continuing coverage of the immigration beat. In 2020, Burnett along with other NPR journalists, were finalists for a duPont-Columbia Award for their coverage of the Trump Administration's Remain in Mexico program. In December 2018, Burnett was invited to participate in a workshop on Refugees, Immigration and Border Security in Western Europe, sponsored by the RIAS Berlin Commission.

You tune in regularly to Classical 90.5 expecting to hear music of Mozart, Aaron Copland, Philip Glass and more. Thanks to our generous members we're able…

A recent episode of Mizzou Music featured previews of Show-Me Opera concerts and the Mizzou Horn Choir.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU5mkMUfv2MThese…

On this week's episode of Mizzou Music, host Trevor Harris visited with Arthur White - the director of Jazz Studies at MU - and with Larry Sutherland, the…

The story of the funeral in "Death Sucks" is true; only the name of the deceased has been changed. Singer Mark Bates opted for a fake name ("Uncle Freddy") to protect the privacy of the dearly departed, but otherwise, his composition offers an honest and darkly funny account of his day at a close relation's funeral.

By many accounts, Makh Daniels was a passionate, kind man, as well as a ferocious vocalist who lived for the road. Daniels died in a van accident two years ago. His metal band Early Graves pays tribute to his memory in "Pure Hell," which swarms with exuberant rage.