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A U.S. Army staff sergeant's alleged massacre of Afghan civilians has raised calls for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan before the end-of-2014 timetable set by President Obama. Even some Republican presidential candidates are saying it is time to end the war. But not Mitt Romney.

One diva brought another to the screen in this week's episode of the celebrated drama. New Zealand native Dame Kiri Te Kanawa appeared as her predecessor Dame Nellie Melba, an Australian singer in high demand in the years before and After World War I. Hear the real Melba in a signature role.

Pianist Robert Glasper is an example of the freedom principle at work; walking proof that art is forever the great (small-d) democrat. A soon-to-be father, Glasper says he's excited about the world his child will soon enter, and he describes what Obama's presidency means for jazz.

The artist's first album as a lead for Blue Note grew from a jarring realignment in her personal life. On The Omnichord Real Book, she finds ways to embrace jazz without taking on its baggage.

One of the beauties of New Orleans piano music is that once you hear it, you'll know it whenever you encounter it again. It's Mardi Gras week in New Orleans, and we're going to join in the celebration with a brief but broad overview of some of the Crescent City's many extraordinary pianists.

Hear the gorgeous voice of a young opera singer with his ears tuned to the great tenors of the past.

Hear excerpts from the acclaimed violinist's new 40-CD box set.

The Catalyst Quartet has been all about elevating music previously excluded from the canon — in this case, exceptional string quartets by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Walker, and William Grant Still.

Raven Chacon, Jerod Tate and Joe Rainey are among the noted composers drawing deep inspiration from their indigenous heritage, as we explore in a roundup of recent recordings.

Read an excerpt from historian Bob Riesman's look at the great blues man's ever-evolving persona.