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Download the score of a piece commissioned by NPR Music to honor the composer's 75th birthday, learn the music and then come sing the very first performance with us on June 21 in the heart of Manhattan.

Jason Crane of The Jazz Session interview podcast is touring the U.S. via Greyhound bus.

In Sonnymoon's "Just Before Dawn," Anna Wise's ethereal vocals float across a palpitating soundscape. "Every night, you should have someone to hold," Wise sings, "to tell you that you did okay when your mind is against you."

Pianist and composer Kurt Ellenberger urges musicians to "make money doing something else."

The pianist's new album features some of the most difficult etudes ever written for solo piano by the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. "Ligeti took the piano to places it had never been before," he says, "and makes demands of the pianist and the mind that had never been made before."

The outstanding Cambini-Paris Quartet uncovers the neglected chamber music of Félicien David.

Yesterday's online firestorm that raged between the Metropolitan Opera, music critics and fans triggers crucial questions about the place and value of music criticism — and we'd like to hear from you.

Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.

Cuadrado combines lines from surrealist poetry to find the music within during a concert from 92Y Tribeca. He uses Spanish and African modes and melodies, Flamenco rhythms, and more.

The saxophonist performs a piece by his contemporary — a practice much rarer than you might think.