Norman Gilliland

He taught great composers—Beethoven, Hummel, Schubert, Liszt—and many others. But today Antonio Salieri is best remembered for something he probably didn’t do. He’s remembered for poisoning Mozart. Peter Shaffer’s play […]

Wisconsin and the World.

The first radio concert was a brilliant success but, like many live broadcasts today, it required not only high technology, but artistry, fast thinking and improvisation. The Canadian inventor Reginald […]

In his autobiography, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf couldn’t resist passing along a story that suggests how seriously eighteenth-century Venetians took their music. The famous castrato Guadagni had given three fine […]

February 24, 1876, brought the debut of a collaboration between Norway’s greatest playwright and Norway’s greatest composer. Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, with more than an hour of music by […]

Peter Tchaikovsky had reservations about his fellow Russian composers, but great respect for a contemporary from France—George Bizet, composer of Carmen. In a letter to his brother Modeste he wrote […]

Australian pianist and composer Percy Grainger grew up hearing the piano pieces of Edvard Grieg, and by the time he was in his twenties he had put the Norwegian “in […]

Wisconsin and the World.

Capital City Theatre will be presenting the musical “The World Goes ’Round” from Oct. 15-24 in the Playhouse at Overture Center in Madison.

Since the 2016 elections, claims of foreign interference have become common. As we approach the 2022 midterm elections, how can outside entities affect the US democratic process and how pervasive are those efforts? UW-Madison Journalism and Mass Communications professor Young Mie Kim will provide so…