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You have a sense of her work life — so now hear flutist Claire Chase and her ICE friends play music by an exciting American composer, Arlene Sierra.

A lovely new recording by violinist Julia Fischer contains an unexpected emotional resonance, due to her conductor's premature death.

With his unorthodox orchestrations and harmonies, Hermann changed the way we heard film music.

Chrysta Bilton's mother was a lesbian who asked a man she'd just met to be her sperm donor. It was only much later that Bilton learned the same man had donated sperm to countless other women.

Franks is best known for his 1976 smooth jazz hit "Popsicle Toes." This year, Franks released a new album, Time Together, with more songs suited for cooling down on summer days.

Mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson died a little more than five years ago at the height of her career. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says that, just when it seemed we weren't going to hear her sing anything new, some fantastic live performances have just been released for the first time.

Now in his 90s, Wilson has played with and composed for many of the biggest names in jazz. For his latest album, he enlisted the help of his son and grandson, both composers and musicians themselves.

Metropolis includes movie music that can stand on its own. Hear a new version of the classic score.

She's already one of the most imaginative saxophone players in jazz today. But Roberts' new album challenges even that reputation: It's a musical patchwork spanning decades of history and memory in the lives of 18th-century Louisiana "free people of color."

The honorary lecture series is deemed the highest honor the federal government gives for intellectual achievement in the humanities.