Classiclectic
Monday through Friday from 9:30am to 12pm EST
Experience an eclectic collection of classical music with host Kurt Hauswirth, on weekdays from 9:30 am to Noon on Public Radio 90. Soothing and adventurous classical music provides you with listening companionship throughout your morning.
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Classiclectic’s mission is to foster love, knowledge, and enthusiasm for classical music; to expand the awareness and accessibility to the art form; to highlight and explore the stories and performances of the arts community; to continue serving the community of the Upper Great Lakes Region through the vision of Public Radio 90 WNMU-FM.
- Marquette Symphony Orchestra shares 2026-27 concert season plans, kicking off with an outdoor performance
- The 2026 Pine Mountain Music Festival season brings light opera, chamber music, youth talent, and more
- Beacon Arts Michigan offering new vision for U.P. tradition of chamber music performances
- Deux Saisons duo entertaining and raising awareness for Earth Day Concert at The Honorable Distillery
- Celebrating 25 years of the Rozsa Center with the KSO and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony
NPR Music
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NPR's Felix Contreras explains why this summer was different than most for Grateful Dead fans around the country, and what Deadheads told him about why they got hooked on the band.
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K-pop conquered the world — now Chile's young creatives are remixing the movement and making it their own. -
Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco are two artists who've dipped their toes into the Grateful Dead extended universe through a singular experience: by sharing the stage with Bob Weir. -
As part of NPR Music's series The Ripple Effect, Isabella Gomez Sarmiento speaks with Deadheads young and old, including famous followers like reality TV host Andy Cohen, who saw his first Grateful Dead show as a teenager in 1986, and young fans just discovering the band -- and passing on their appreciation to others.
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Boy Throb is a boy band where three members have not physically met the fourth. After a public campaign to get him to the U.S., they announced good news this week.
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Ellington's music has been a staple of jazz repertoire for decades. Now artists are building on his work and finding midway points between the legend and themselves. One striking example: Jason Moran Plays Duke Ellington.
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The singer, who had a viral hit last year with "Sally, When the Wine Runs Out," filled his follow-up album, Chuck Timely & The Hourglass, with dive bar jukebox melodies and live instrumentation. -
Over the last decade, reality TV mogul Andy Cohen has been spotted dancing at concerts for Dead & Company. But his ties to the Grateful Dead go much farther than that. -
To devotees of the Grateful Dead, the first nine days of August are known as the "Days Between." This annual celebration commemorates the birth and death of guitarist Jerry Garcia.
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This week's Billboard Hot 100 chart is full of country-music crossovers. Stephen Thompson of NPR Music reports.
