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The “Kalevala,” a disparate collection of long narrative poems culled from oral tradition, is frequently referred to as the Finnish national epic. Its…

For years, tourists have peered into multi-million-dollar apartments from the top of London's busiest art gallery. Britain's Supreme Court says that has to change.

For touring musicians, who often spend holidays away from home, working and eating on the road is not always a rock star experience.

Highlights from the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Emmy Award-winning musician Geoff Muldaur has collaborated with artists from Jerry Garcia to Bonnie Raitt. His latest album with his band the Texas Sheiks draws on his jazz and blues background. He shares more from his past -- as well as a few tunes -- in the Fresh Air studio.

I'm Not Jim is a collaboration between Walter Salas-Humara of The Silos and award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem. The duo Elegant Too rounds out this unlikely quartet, whose first record is a mix of giddy pop and mournful blues called You Are All My People.

A Tempo this Saturday (4/2 at 7 pm) features a conversation with Piffaro's long-time artistic co-directors Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken as they look ahead to retirement, and with incoming artistic director Priscilla Herreid.

This week's A Tempo (Feb. 26) looks at programs by the Early Music Access Project and Early Music America to highlight the role of musicians of color in creating and performing Early Music.

Cabinets of curiosities, also sometimes referred to as “wonder rooms,” were small collections of extraordinary objects, strange and often fanciful…

These character-driven novels featuring fracturing families, intrepid scientists and one very plucky early American heroine will spark lively debate on everything from the unreliability of memory to scientific ethics.