The Answered Question

Gil Rose, the founder and conductor of Odyssey Opera, talks with WCRB's Chris Voss about Dvorák's rarely heard Dmitrij, and Hugh Wolff, Director of Orchestras at the New England Conservatory of Music, talks with WCRB's Alan McLellan about the NEC Philharmonia and its upcoming season.

(photo of Gil Rose by Liz Linder)

As the Boston University Tanglewood Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary, BUTI Executive Director Hilary Field Respass and conductor Ken-David Masur (BUTI '96) talk with WCRB's Brian McCreath about how the institute continues to shape young lives and what the future holds.

(photo fo BUTI campus by Tanglewd, via Wikimedia Commons)

Oboist Peggy Pearson and composer John Harbison talk with Brian McCreath about the legacy of mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and Boston Symphony Orchestra Artistic Administrator Tony Fogg previews the 2016 Tanglewood season.

Violinist Lara St. John talks about Shiksa, a multi-faceted recording that includes music from Russia, the Balkans, Hungary, and beyond, and Pinchas Zukerman talks about his October 2015 Boston Symphony Orchestra concert.

(photo of Lara St. John by Martin Kennedy)

Host Brian McCreath talks with pianist Martin Helmchen about Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto and previews a new recording by the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and Ron Della Chiesa talks with BSO Assistant Concertmaster Elita Kang.

(photo of Martin Helmchen by Marco Borggreve)

Scott Metcalfe, Music Director of Blue Heron, and Jason Fisher, of A Far Cry, talk with Alan McLellan about Fauré's Requiem, and conductor François-Xavier Roth, Boston Symphony flutist Elizabeth Rowe, and harpist Jessica Zhou talk with Brian McCreath about the BSO's January 2016 program of music by Gossec, Mozart, and Beethoven.

(photo of A Far Cry by Yoon S. Byun)

Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart talks about sharing the stage with John Williams, the challenges of conducting a live film accompaniment, and the differences between British and American audiences, and conductor and pianist Christian Zacharias talks about his 2015 Tanglewood concerts of music by Mozart and Schumann.

(photo of Keith Lockhart by Stu Rosner, courtesy of the BSO)

Composer and Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams talks with WCRB's Brian McCreath about Star Wars, Film Night at the Pops, and how he decided to succeed Arthur Fiedler as Pops Conductor in 1980. Also, WCRB's Alan McLellan explores the legacy of the Russian tradition of chamber music with the Hermitage Trio.

(photo of John Williams conducting the Boston Pops courtesy of the BSO)

Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director talks with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan of Boston Public Radio from Luxembourg during the BSO's European tour of May 2016. Nelsons also discusses the 2015-2016 Opening Night program of works by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff.

(photo of the Luxembourg Philharmonie, where the BSO played during its European tour, by Wade Zimmerman, courtesy of Christian de Portzamparc)

Soprano Kristine Opolais and conductor Andris Nelsons talk with WCRB's Ron Della Chiesa about Italian opera and their life together, and violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, and pianist Lars Vogt talk with WCRB's Cathy Fuller about German Romantic chamber music.

(photo of Kristine Opolais by Tatyana Vlasova)