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Mark Schreiner/WUSFAfter starting as a volunteer with WUSF while still a student at USF in the 1980s, WSMR music director and host Russell Gant is retiring on Wednesday after 42 years. -
Lisa-Marie MazzuccoSimone Dinnerstein has toured the world as a concert pianist, performing in solo recitals and with top-flight orchestras, premiering new works and even touring the U.S. with a Cuban orchestra. Her new album, Complicité, features her Baroklyn chamber music ensemble.
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French violinist and social media influencer Esther Abrami releases her new album, "Women," featuring music by female composers in a bid to redress historic biases and uncover forgotten treasures. -
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More than 130 kimonos from the late 19th century to the late 20th century are on display. -
Darlene Drew is responsible for creating the musical's atmosphere, which helps bring the story to life. The show is playing at the Straz Center through Sunday. -
University of Central Florida Senior History Lecturer Jim Clark will share stories about some of the early and now forgotten tourist draws at the Spring Hill Branch Library. -
The David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts will introduce a new restaurant, cafe, bar and a terrace with a large arch facing the downtown Tampa Riverwalk. -
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Sciolino about the new book, How to Fall in Love with the Louvre. -
With a recurrence of cancer, famed conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is ending his musical career. One of his final concerts is in Miami Beach, where he'll lead the orchestral academy he helped found. -
The Tampa Oratorio Singers' "Keeping It Keyboard" concert features a performance by Wade FitzGerald of Waltz in A Minor. The pianist has some ideas about what the piece was meant for. -
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Conductor Nicholas Hersh calls William Dawson's work "a fundamental part of our history and a beautiful piece of our culture." -
