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Federal law generally prohibits the import of ivory, but it's legal to sell domestically if the ivory was harvested before 1976.

From Queen Victoria's funeral to a tour of Maria Callas' Paris apartment, a British newsreel archive has just uploaded 85,000 historic films to YouTube. Watch a few of our favorite music clips.

We revisit Robin Young's interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer on the occasion of his 75th birthday, 15 years ago.

Vic Di Geronimo, who hosts Classic Mornings on WILL Illinois Public Media in Urbana, Illinois, shares a playlist of classical music.

How hot is the Tango? A Danish orchestra chowed down on the hottest pepper on the planet and then played the Tango Jalousie, while fighting back the tears.

Celebrate the sunniest of seasons with the German prodigy's timeless Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The virtuoso organist tells Here & Now's Robin Young about why he is on a mission to change the whole organ world.

“Station Eleven” is the best-selling, award winning, breakout novel by Emily St. John Mandel, who was born and raised on an island off the coast of…

This piece, from a new album of orchestral works by Richter, depicts the opening of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway by pairing pulsating rhythms with the composer's signature wistful melodies.

One of the world's most beloved and admired sopranos, Dawn Upshaw has a way with complex modern works and also the tuneful melodies of classic American composers like Stephen Foster.