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Most cities with a major league baseball team also have an orchestra, so Classical WSMR will have some Symphonic Spring Training to go along with the game schedule. Each day, starting sometime between 9am and 3pm, there will be a pair of pieces played by orchestras from two cities that have baseball teams playing a game that day.

The Tampa Oratorio Singers' "Keeping It Keyboard" concert features a performance by Wade FitzGerald of Waltz in A Minor. The pianist has some ideas about what the piece was meant for.

Alvin Ailey's seminal Revelations is considered the most widely viewed modern dance work in the world. Lost songs from the 1960 premiere are featured in a new work and an album this season.

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower envisioned the Kennedy Center as an "artistic mecca." President Trump recently told reporters he'd never seen a show there.

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, Tea with Mussolini and Enchanted April.

Conductor Nicholas Hersh calls William Dawson's work "a fundamental part of our history and a beautiful piece of our culture."

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.

Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time. Audra McDonald is starring in a new Broadway revival, and the race-conscious casting gives the production a new frame.

Jackson made a cameo in the romantic comedy musical & Juliet on Saturday night. She told NPR: "I got a call, and someone said, 'We heard that this was your lifelong dream.' And it is."

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