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A group of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students realized there was no children's book about the composer Florence Price. So they wrote, illustrated and published their own. -
Renee Klahr/Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.
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Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence. -
Exploring the work of an artist who pushes all kinds of buttons except one: repertoire as modern as his makeup.
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Hear an excerpt of a brilliant new set of Beethoven concertos featuring pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim.
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There's music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and a few others, but why isn't science fiction a more popular point of departure for modern composers?
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Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
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The week in classical music news from Pasadena to Berlin.
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Saying goodbye to a West Coast label that led listeners into mysterious soundscapes.
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It's good to take it easy during the dog days of summer. But how slow is too slow in classical music?
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Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
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A mission to pick meaningful music — "Six Songs of Me" — inspired hundreds of personal playlists.
![["Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun In His Cubicle"] Claude Debussy, composer of Prelude To the Afternoon of a Faun, was born 150 years ago, Wednesday, Aug. 22. (Cartoon by Pablo Helguera)](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5e901e2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1000x557+0+186/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2012%2F08%2F17%2Fcartoon_debussy_custom-9c61bd6dd4374b374b427ec0459b57af77cfa75a.jpg)
