Our hosts provide in-depth knowledge about music they share and keep listeners up-to-date on music events happening throughout the region on air and on the Classical Facebook Group andJazz and World Music Facebook Group
Explore and experience a variety of music programming on NEPM 88.5FM:
- Classical Music with John Nowacki, Walter Carroll, Stephen Petke and Jon Solins
- Jazz à la Mode with Tom Reney, Bex Taylor and Peter Sokolowski
- Jazz Safari with Kari Njiiri
- Tertulia with Raquel Obregon
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A year ago the Berkshire Opera Festival brought its first production, Madama Butterfly to the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, restoring fully-staged opera…
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Welsh composer Paul Mealor is one of the most popular choral composers today. His sacred motets, songs and cycles have been performed, broadcast and…
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The choral ensemble VOCE, founded in 2006 and based in Hartford, CT, champions new music, especially of composers in the early stages of their careers.…
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On our way home from Boston Sunday we listened to American Routes on New England Public Radio. Host Nick Spitzer asked Blues musician Jimmy Duck Holmes…
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Steve Waksman, Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College, gave a historical view of the movement of jazz from “lowbrow” popular music, to…
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything…no particular reason. So, I recently came across this interesting little story. Ever wonder what it’s like to…
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I dare say that, with the state of classical music in this country, ie: seemingly on a steady decline, no matter how much we’d like to believe otherwise,…
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My wife and I have been going to the Met pretty much annually since the NEPR travel program began a couple of decades ago with a series of weekends at the…
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The King of the Blues had a profound influence on all who saw him perform, including New England Public Radio's Tom Reney. This podcast is a look back at…
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July 25th marked the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival. The milestone is being widely commemorated, and it follows…