Carnegie Hall Live brings you remarkable performances from one of the world's great stages, without leaving home. Tonight, catch the encore broadcast of the season opener with pianist Yuja Wang and the NYO USA All-Stars under conductor Daniel Harding, performing music from Bernstein's West Side Story and Stravinsky's The Firebird.

If you’re a book lover, you probably appreciate recommendations from your favorite authors. For music, Johannes Brahms recommends the Clarinet Trio by Alexander von Zemlinsky. But you don't have to take his word for it—give it a listen for yourself this morning!

A mysterious girl on a balcony catches a young man's attention... and causes trouble with his fiancée.That's how Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia begins. Hear Act One of this charming tale of curiosity and mistaken identity tonight on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

“Sonorous elegance” is how contemporary composer Bill Banfield describes Duke Ellington’s big band and orchestral music. It's an approach he admires and weaves into his Symphony #6, “Four Songs for Five American Voices.”

Some music has a way of bringing people together. For Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile, musicians whose careers span classical, folk, and bluegrass, that meeting place is Bach. Hear this remarkable trio perform a Bach sonata tonight on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

For World Refugee Awareness Month, we are highlighting musicians like Erich Korngold. He grew up in Jewish family in Vienna. As Nazism took hold, he fled Austria for the United States, and he became a major force in Hollywood film music. Hear Korngold’s contribution to American music in America 250: The American Experience.

Have you ever come home from a trip wishing you could hold onto the feeling a little longer? That's what Felix Mendelssohn did after visiting Italy. Inspired by the sights, sounds, and energy of his travels, he composed what became his Symphony No. 4, known as the "Italian." Hear Mendelssohn's musical postcard from Italy tonight on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Antonin Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony feels like American music. That’s because Dvorak wrote it in while living in the heart of the United States, drawing on sounds from Native and African American traditions. Hear Dvorak’s symphony “From the New World” this morning.

What does it mean to be a trailblazer? A trailblazing musician can be someone who experiments with unusual techniques on a musical instrument … or maybe it’s a young woman who follows her passion for music from inside the walls of a convent in 17th century Italy. You’ll hear music by these trailblazers on Sunday Baroque this week, starting at 7 am on 91.1, 107.5 and our music stream.

To understand America, sometimes it helps to look beyond the biggest cities. This week on America 250: The American Experience, we travel to Milwaukee, Houston, and Indianapolis, where orchestras became part of the cultural fabric of their communities and helped create a sense of place. Join us tonight at 8 on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.