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Keeping classical music alive

WGBH is acquiring WCRB 99.5FM, New England's leading all-classical music station, and will shift it to a noncommercial service, in keeping with our public media mission.

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Events

Fall Arts and Humanities Festival
Sunday Nov 22
Tunes for Teosinte
Sunday Nov 22
A Child's Christmas in Wales - Family Day Performance
Sunday Nov 22 2:00P-4:00P
The Wizard of Oz
Sunday Nov 22 2:00P
Comparative Study of Hindustani and Karnatik Music Systems - Dr. Suresh Mathur
Sunday Nov 22 2:15P-4:30P

Best Seat

AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange II
Sunday, Nov. 22, 7pm and 8pm on WGBH 44
Actress Anika Noni Rose (shown) hosts the new season of AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, a series on contemporary life, art, and pop culture of the African diaspora. In four new programs, African boxers cross the Atlantic to match their skills against the best in the world; a teenage girl travels to Ghana and an expatriate from Sierra Leone returns to his homeland, each hoping to dispel myths about the two countries; and Hurricane Katrina victims find themselves refugees in their own country. View schedule >

Jazz with Eric in the Evening | Donal Fox
Monday, Nov. 23, 8pm on 89.7
Boston-based pianist and composer Donal Fox performs music that the Boston Globe calls “a unique amalgam of jazz, Latin American, and classical music.” Hear it on this edition as Eric Jackson shines the Monday night spotlight on Fox. Find more jazz >
ThanksgivingClassical Music with Cathy Fuller and Brian McCreath | Happy Thanksgiving
Thursday, Nov. 26, 9am and 1pm on WGBH 89.7
It’s Thanksgiving Day, and hosts Cathy Fuller and Brian McCreath have cooked up some special musical selections. This morning, hear Martinu’s La revue de cuisine, and this afternoon, tune in for Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World.” Find more classical >

BSO Live | Andrew Davis and Joshua Bell
Friday, Nov. 27, 1pm on WGBH 89.7
Tune in as English conductor Andrew Davis (shown) leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and American soloist Joshua Bell in Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Also on the LIVE program are Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements. Find more classical >


The music you love, unfiltered

Great Performances, Austin City Limits, and American Masters on WGBH 2 and 44. Coming soon: WGBH celebrates the heritage of Latin Music USA.

 


A front-row seat to great drama

Every day is a celebration of arts and culture at WGBH. Turn on WGBH 2 and 44 for beloved dramas on Masterpiece and coverage of arts in Boston on Center Stage with Jared Bowen; or tune in to WGBH 89.7 for new radio dramas.

Center Stage with Jared Bowen

emmy awardAnd the winner is...
Masterpiece:
Little Dorrit was honored with three Primetime Emmy Awards — Outstanding Miniseries, Outstanding Writing, and Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special. These join the nine Creative Arts & Entertainment Daytime Emmys that WGBH earned earlier this month, along with hundreds of honors over the years, from Emmys to Peabodys to Banff Awards — even two Oscars!

See our most recent awards >

 

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