Leonard Slatkin News

Hai-Xin Wu the assistant principal violinist for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra practices away from the stage among the red velvet seats and grandeur of Carnegie Hall on Thursday, May, 9, 2013 in New York City.

In January, New York City's homeless population topped 50,000. On today's show: we'll look into the increase in homeless families and talk with a woman about how this happened to her.

On May 27, Memorial Day, WCLV presents a unique holiday marathon feauring full length concerts by five American orchestras who performed as part of Carneigie Hall's Spring for Music series: Baltimore, Albany, Detroit, Buffalo and the National, with their distinguished conductors: Marin Alsop, David Alan Miller, JoAnn Foletta, Leonard Slatkin and ... (more)

The chugging rhythms played by instruments more common in jazz, pop and rock gave Steve Martland's music a distinctive, edgy timbre.

Robert deMaine principal cello with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra led by Leonard Slatkin rehearses in preparation for their first trip to Carnegie Hall in 17 years on Monday, May 6, 2013 at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit.

With1Note.com and 855-GO-1-NOTE Helping Everyone Find Their Music DETROIT, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Motown without the music? Unthinkable.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's performances at the 2013 Spring for Music festival represent a dramatic reversal of fortunes, and one that can only happen among modern-day American orchestras.