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Maureen Corrigan is a book critic for Fresh Air.

It has happened to all of us. Â You settle into your seat for a concert performance, begin looking through your program, and there it is a piece of music…

Whatever your opinion of "crossover" music, the lines between musical styles continue to blur. Not too many years ago, cellist Zuill Bailey took his…

Recently, I was surfing away, on the web that is, and I came across a very old photograph of an elderly woman. Her mode of dress dated the photo back 150…

FOUR AUDIO PIECES - ALL MUSIC Samuel Barber was born on March 9, 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He entered the Curtis Institute at fourteen, where…

The new season of live HD presentations from the Met begins this Saturday at 1pm with the controversial new staging of Puccini's Tosca, starring Karita…

In what may be the only recording of his voice, James Naismith describes how he created basketball to occupy his stir-crazy students during a snowy winter in New England.

An air traffic controller coached a passenger through the plane landing on Tuesday.

Eric Lander tendered his letter of resignation hours after a Politico article reported that the White House had found that he bullied and demeaned his subordinates.

Another year down the tubes! Here's a look at 2018 TV/media/radio/movie stories from A to Z: A is for comedian Harry Anderson, star of NBC's Night Court...