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Mandolin player, singer, songwriter Chris Thile is best-known as a founding member of the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and for the quintet,…

Thanks, Grant Tinker, for all the great TV. Tinker, who died Monday at age 90, was NBC chairman 1981-86 and co-founder of the MTM studio in 1970 with...

When the Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the “I Have a Dreamâ€? speech in August, 1963, the "I Have a Dream" section wasn’t part of the prepared…

Those of us of a certain age remember the popular game show What's My Line. The panel tried to discover a contestant's unusual profession. Later they…

This may seem to be a silly question, not unlike why do you like Chinese food, but there are many possible answers. Â Music can be enjoyed on so many…

When we say the words "Classical Music" to those who have little exposure to it, some may have flashbacks. As kids, we had to put on scratchy clothes and…

"English royalty entertains movie stars. The President of the United States entertains artists," quipped composer Gian Carlo Menotti at The White House…

The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 on the next Fretworks. In the liner notes to the 1996 Delos…

As a continuation of the celebration of Women's History Month, acclaimed guitarist Xuefei Yang will be featured on the next Fretworks on Classical 101.…

Listener Denise Kale of Santa Barbara, Calif., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro. Kale was the winner out of 2,258 correct responses.