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Beijing-Based Company Interested in Buying Westminster Choir College for $40 Million

A Beijing-based company that runs bi-lingual K-12 schools in China and has been expanding into sports and arts training is seeking to buy Westminster…

A Tempo: Feb. 24 - Exploring Leonard Bernstein's Legacy Through 'A Quiet Place'

In celebration of the centenary of Leonard Bernstein's birth, the Curtis Institute of Music, Opera Philadelphia and the National Museum of American Jewish…

Between the Keys April 24/Seriously Scherzo! Part 2

This week on Between the Keys, The Classical Network's Artist-in-Residence Jed Distler concludes a two part survey of the musical Scherzo. While a scherzo…

In this Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017 photo Jocelyn DoCouto, top, adds braid extensions for seven-year-old Zanyrah Parrott, of Pawtucket, R.I., in DoCouto's home, in Pawtucket. The billionaire industrialist Charles Koch might not have a lot in common with DoCouto, but they are both part of a national movement to deregulate the business of African-style braiding. DoCouto is pushing for state legislation in Rhode Island that would exempt her from the cumbersome and expensive occupational licensing requirements for hairdressers and barbers. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

You Need A License For That

In some states, you need a license not just to be a doctor -- but an interior designer, a tooth-filer, a hair braider. We'll talk to a few people who are trying to change the system to make it easier to do work.

Barbra Streisand plays with her dog Samantha near her son, Jason Gould (left), and husband, James Brolin, in Paris in 2007. Samantha died last year, but Streisand now has clones of the dog.

Send In The Clones: Barbra Streisand Reveals Fluffy Canine Copies

In an interview with Variety magazine, the legendary singer/filmmaker dropped a bombshell: Two of her three coton de tulears are clones of a favorite canine who died last year.

Beethoven, Bax & Dvorak from the Lenape Chamber Ensemble

On Thursday, 3/1 the Noontime Concert features the Lenape Chamber Ensemble in Beethoven's Serenade, op. 8 for string trio, Dvorak's Sonatina in G and the…

Roy Ayers: Tiny Desk Concert

Watch the 77-year-old jazz-funk icon perform "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" (and more) at the Tiny Desk.

A "Picture Perfect" Oscar Party: March 2

Mark the 90th anniversary of the Academy Awards by joining us for a special three-hour broadcast celebrating the history of music in the movies. Ross…

The Sunday Opera: Two Operas by Marschner: "Hans Heiling" and "Der Vampyr"

Music by the rival of Weber and friend to Beethoven and Mendelssohn is being featured on this week’s Sunday opera (2/4 3:00 p.m.) when we’ll look at two…

FILE - In this July 24, 1967 file photo, a Michigan State police officer searches a youth on Detroit's 12th Street where looting was still in progress after the previous day's rioting. The last surviving member of the Kerner Commission says he remains haunted that the panel's recommendations on US race relation and poverty were never adopted, but he is hopeful they will be one day. Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris says 50 years after working on a report to examine the causes of the late 1960s race riots he strongly feels that poverty and structural racism still enflames racial tensions even as the United States becomes more diverse. (AP Photo/File)

The Kerner Commission On Racial Unrest, 50 Years Later

The Kerner Commission Report on racial inequality in America. 50 years on, they’re taking another look.

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