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An acclaimed American opera gets a rare honor — a second recording.

The Broadway and television star talks about the new recording of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait he made for NPR Music with the United States Marine Band.

How one writer's identity was forged by a summer music festival in the Berkshires.

He revolutionized and continues to explore the jazz piano trio. Hear five selections from his staggering and ever-expanding body of small-group work.

Gary Walker, music director of WBGO in Newark, highlights the pianist's take on a Miles Davis classic.

From two stages at the Newport Jazz Festival, hear a gifted young singer and the Latin side of Herbie Hancock.

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

Bassist Linda Oh's story is so compelling, everyone who writes about her mentions it: how she was born in Malaysia to Chinese parents, who emigrated to western Australia when she was 3.

The trailer depicts a dystopian future where everything bad that can happen does, save for Hunger Games-like fights to the death between teens. Actually, that's an exaggeration. The future horrors in an Obama second term are all the common GOP bill of particulars against him: high gas prices and jobless rates, the loss of religious freedom, Iranian appeasement, in short the usual suspects.

When Trayvon Martin slipped a sweatshirt over his shoulders that fateful February night, he was probably just a little bit chilled. But since he was shot and killed that simple piece of clothing has taken on big symbolic weight.