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Kris Serafin/Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire. -
Marty Reichenthal/Stephen Sondheim has died at 91. Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes looks back on her favorite Sondheim tunes.
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Rounding up all this week's classical news that's fit to link — featuring a conductor carrying the Olympic Flag, a ranking of national anthems and the sad ends of unwanted pianos. -
Another round of Newport previews, drummer Michael Carvin and much ado about jazz standards.
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Learning more about a singer's tattoos and uncovering how much Zubin Mehta dislikes New York: all the news that's fit to link.
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Here are five bands, all debuting at Newport, who represent new generations of jazz expression.
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The life of Petra Anderson, a promising young musician, was narrowly saved by a bullet's extraordinary trajectory.
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Meet Mike Tetreault, a professional percussionist who spent a year working about 20 hours a day toward his dream job — and how his fate was decided in just a few minutes.
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Mozart in full Technicolor, band camp in Baltimore, and Mahler tans (?) in San Fran: all the classical news that's fit to link.
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Saxophonist and composer Ravi Coltrane — son of John and Alice — says his mother's love of symphonic music provided a childhood soundtrack for him and his siblings.
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The great Latin band leader Eddie Palmieri has just received a Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, for his lifetime of achievement in jazz. Fresh Air honors the Latin band leader with excerpts from a 1994 interview.
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The pianist Oliver Jones, 77, was in his mid-40s when he moved back to Montreal, the city where he grew up in the shadow of Oscar Peterson. Decades later, he's a national treasure unto himself.
