Marshall Terry

The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra launches its season tonight with famed violinist Joshua Bell playing Braham’s Violin Concerto. But before that, there will be a piece that has never been performed for an audience.

WFAE's Joni Deutsch and Marshall Terry discuss Amplifier, WFAE’s new music podcast about the people, places and things that make up the Charlotte music scene.

The construction of new schools in Matthews, Mint Hill, Huntersville, and Cornelius would effectively stop under a policy the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board approved Tuesday night. It was a change school board members hinted at earlier this year after those four towns asked lawmakers for permission to create their own charters and spend property tax dollars on them. The General Assembly later passed a bill that allows them to do that.

While walking home from church one night in 1944 in rural southeastern Alabama, an African-American woman named Recy Taylor was kidnapped at gunpoint and gang-raped by six white men.

The World Cup of equestrian sport is coming to western North Carolina next month. As many as 400,000 people are expected to descend on Polk County for the World Equestrian Games.