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“At this performance, it was a kind of pandemonium afterwards. The audience wouldn’t stop cheering.”That’s how the noted pianist Gilbert Kalish recalls…

Mark Kurlansky's book Ready for a Brand New Beat is a history of the song "Dancing in the Street." It was the soundtrack for the summer of 1964, when race riots and war protests spread across the United States.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and Guy Benson is the Political Editor of Townhall.com about the response of politicians as they deal with charges of sexual misbehavior.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with E.J. Dionne of the Brookings Institution and Mary Katharine Ham of CNN about this week's developments in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, whose new book is Code Red, about who wins from the Iowa caucuses and the impeachment process.

We'll ring in the official start of summer on the next Fretworks program with banjo player extraordinaire Bela Fleck and his arrangement of J. S. Bach's…

The use of music to re order parts of the brain was first offered in the States at the end of World War II, at Walter Reade Army Hospital. Veterans who…

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times.

Also: Transcripts are released of a 911 call in a deadly Minneapolis police shooting; California wildfires spread; and O.J. Simpson will request parole from Nevada officials today.

You can hear our new series Classical Showcase 7 to 9pm beginning this Friday here on Classical 101. This weekly feature will showcase a different concert…