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Conductor and Arranger Jonathan McPhee on his process of reducing Wagner's Ring Cycle to create "The Essential Ring"

On orchestras and cultural decline.

Hear the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's very first performance Interlochen's Kresge Auditorium from August 1966.

Jean Sibelius’s sole concerto, in which every note is valuable, according to Ida Haendel, remains among his most popular works. David Gutman surveys recordings reaching back nine decades

Ronmark, a classically trained musician who guided the hiring of music director Jader Bignamini, assumes the top role with years of DSO experience.

She officially "retired" as a member this year, bringing an end one of the longest-ever active individual tenures with a choral group in this country.