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Debussy's groundbreaking work La Mer helped usher in the modern era of classical music and broke new ground in orchestration.

Author Salman Rushdie has a new book out. Shalimar the Clown is set in Kashmir, the volatile region bordering India and Pakistan that was recently devastated by an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.

Country bluesman R.L. Burnside died this week in Memphis at 78. He worked a good part of his life as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta. He made his first recording in his 40s and didn't become a fulltime professional musician until he was in his 60s.

Fayard Nicholas was part of the famous acrobatic dancing team the Nicholas Brothers. He died earlier this week at the age of 91. Fayard's brother and tap partner Harold Nicholas recalls their career together.

March of the Penguins is -- by far -- the surprise hit movie of the year. The film about the Emperor Penguins' extraordinary breeding cycle is now the second-highest-grossing documentary ever, just behind Fahrenheit 9/11. It's also the highest grossing French film ever released in the United States.

Singer-songwriter Neil Young discusses his latest album, Prairie Wind. It was recorded as Young was being treated for a brain aneurysm earlier this year.

Minton Sparks is a poet, storyteller and performance artist rolled into one, and her new recording, Sin Sick, offers tales tall and small, dark and whimsical, drawing on characters from her native Tennessee and the South.

Google.com, the top Internet search engine, has a new legal battle on its hands -- this one from angry writers. Noah Adams talks with Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin about a lawsuit that claims that Google's effort to make books searchable and findable on the Internet violates copyright law.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the premiere of the new season of Lost. The ABC series about a group of cataways on an island is going into its second season.

Internet auction provider eBay agrees to buy Skype. eBay will pay $2.6 billion in cash and stock for the Internet calling service, in hopes that it will boost communication between buyers and sellers.