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Wednesday (12-6) at noon on Curtis Calls we present music by Messager, Poulenc Schubert & Weber from the graduation recital of clarinetist Slavko Popovic.…

Nils Lofgren, best known as guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, also played for Neil Young and Crazy Horse early in that band's career. He's also had a notable solo career — and he founded the mid-1970s band Grin. Critic Milo Miles surveys his work.

The veteran jazz master teams up with one of America's most cherished songwriters.

Sergei Bortkiewicz, born in Ukraine, lived through two world wars and the Russian Revolution, enduring both poverty and personal tragedy. Through it all,…

On Half Past this Sunday evening (5/6) at 11 we'll hear: Samuel Adler's Harpsichord Sonata, Judgement by Matthew Levy, Vincent Persichhetti's English Horn…

Sunday evening (1-6) at 11 we'll hear Russell Peterson's Concerto for Alto Sax, Flute & Strings, Howard Hanson's Nymph & Satyr Ballet Suite, Muskones by…

It's the music of Orlando Gibbins and William Lawes on this Friday's (9/6) Distant Mirror as Fretwork performs consort music for viols from the early…

We've combined a bit of silliness with calendar art for this week's program as we scheduled fifteen marches from a variety of sources (Broadway, Hollywood, television) to celebrate the month of March - even though none of the marches really have anything to do with the month.

The Brooklyn-based band Pinataland builds songs by mixing historical tape with band members' own compositions. Their CD is called Songs for the Forgotten Future: Vol. 1. NPR's Scott Simon talks with band members Doug Stone and Dave Wexler.

MI6 may be the world's most legendary secret service, but fiction and film can't uncover its actual history. For that, you need BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera and his new book, The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6.