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

Composer and pianist Vijay Iyer and filmmaker Prashant Bhargava transport Igor Stravinsky's imagined springtime religious ritual to India, where such a celebration is real: the joyous Hindu holiday called Holi. Watch excerpts of the film and hear the entire musical performance.

Check out our favorite videos from our Rite of Spring call, ranging from beautiful to nutty, live action to stop motion, porcine to feline. No cats, bananas or cyborgs were harmed in the making of these motion pictures — though grass and weeds got what was coming to them.

With the bass, "you have a lot more power than you may think," Oh says in a session with Jon Weber.

NPR's Ari Shapiro and others join the Pink Martini co-founder in a journey through popular song.

Fleck joins host Marian McPartland and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi for trio renditions of "In Walked Bud," "All the Things You Are" and "Polka Dots and Moonbeams."

For jazz musicians, Barron is considered an institution. So it's fitting that the pianist gets to celebrate his 70th birthday at another jazz institution. Here, he demonstrates his ebullient clarity.

Vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant and pianist Aaron Diehl, both in their 20s, have already racked up major industry prizes. On her new album, they find ways to honor old traditions as young people.

For a film built almost completely from rehearsals on a bare stage, there's a surprising amount of drama — especially between a stage director and his charismatic star, French soprano Natalie Dessay.

In New York's SoHo lies a small merchant which peddles preserved insects, skulls, bones and more. Unnerved — well, mostly — the improvising harpist generates a Caribbean bounce amid the glass cases.