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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Todd Field about his new film "Tar", which tracks the fictional unraveling of one of the world's great orchestra conductors, played by Cate Blanchett.

Ukraine's culture minister said his country's allies could stop Russia from weaponizing its culture by temporarily boycotting Russian artists, including The Nutcracker composer Tchaikovsky.

The cellist Yo Yo Ma looks back at the life of master cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who died Friday at 80 at a Moscow hospital. Ma credits Rostopovich for invigorating the cello repertoire, both as a performer and through dozens of new works commissioned from great composers.

The name of the great contralto and civil rights icon now lives above the doors to the grand hall in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

A fictional tale of the real-life Jewish community in Shanghai during World War II — with a cross-cultural love story at its heart — is premiering at the New York Philharmonic on Thursday.

On this edition we talk with ProPublica's Jennifer Smith Richards about her recent story showing how the Trump Administration cut funding for Oregon deaf and blind students in the name of rooting out DEI. Then, we talk with our own reporter Zac Ziegler about a local public radio station having to cut NPR programing to save money.

On this edition, we talk with Jim Cornelius, editor-in-chief of the Nugget Newspaper in Sisters. He's both the chronicler of The Akawa Butte Fire, and its threat to the community of Sisters, as well as a friend and neighbor to people who've had to flea with their lives from the firestorm. We also talked to KLCC's Macy Moore about a unique and quirky race in Corvallis.

Geoff Nunberg is the linguist contributor on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

Composers of color have long had to compete with dead white men for space on the concert stage. A new project, spearheaded by Rachel Barton Pine, seeks to correct that for the next generation.

Megan Abbott's new novel centers on a two young women whose high school friendship has morphed into professional rivalry. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Give Me Your Hand a "spectacular thriller."