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Zachery Riggins , musician and business owner, is helping his alma mater, Cincinnati's Withrow High School , celebrate its 100 th anniversary AND...

Bassist extraordinaire, composer, arranger, educator, curator and administrator, Christian McBride, has been one of the most important and most omnipresent figures in the jazz world for 20 years. Sometimes hard to believe considering this man just entered his 40's.

In 1988, a determined Bob Boilen started showing up on NPR's doorstep every day, looking for a way to contribute his skills in music and broadcasting to the network. His persistence paid off, and within a few weeks he was hired, on a temporary basis, to work for All Things Considered. Less than a year later, Boilen was directing the show and continued to do so for the next 18 years.

[video dead] Last time, I wrote about Vincent d'Indy and his Symphony on a French Mountain Air (Sept. 22), mentioning that another "one work composer" was…

Vocalist Al Jarreau begins this edition of The Blues which airs on Saturday night, February 18th at 11pm. I played his music for years on my jazz shows....

Late-Romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler said, "The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything." This evening on Symphony at 7,…

This week on Fretworks, I have some music out of the ordinary guitar repertoire. We'll hear part of a big guitar concerto by Alan Hovhaness, a piano…

The answer includes a half a million vending machines, a 7.5 cent coin, and a company president who just wanted to get a couple lawyers out of his office.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House fall discussion series returns with four all-new sessions, beginning Wednesday evening with a look at two works Stowe...

Independence Day typically inspires many Americans to re-examine our nation’s founding principles and their relevance to our current circumstances.