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In 2018 there were close to 15,000 people serving time in prisons across the state, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections. As of last month…

Jenny Lewis's latest album is the Jubilantly titled Joy'All and it’s one that continues her warm and intimate sound referencing classic soul, R&B and country music. Maybe you caught her playing in Bend this past summer or even got to catch the Postal Service anniversary tour or with Thanksgiving around the corner. as it is in mine, maybe a very Murray Christmas is a family tradition in your household as well.You can catch her at a headlining show at the McDonald Theater in Eugene on Friday, December 1.

Conductor Robert Spano leads the orchestra and chorus in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, music written for the 1962 rededication of the cathedral in Coventry, England, destroyed in a 1940 air raid.

Los Angeles is a city of excess, but conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen has won it over with his understated, quiet ways. Salonen appears onstage at Disney Hall, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Haydn's "Drumroll Symphony," the Symphony No. 103.

On the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, we look at his final symphony: No. 41 in C Major, or the Jupiter Symphony. Mozart wrote it just three years before his death in 1791.

On Sept. 12, 1910, Gustav Mahler introduced his Symphony No. 8 -- a massive, hulking work featuring an enormous double chorus and the largest orchestra ever put on stage at the time. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas says he thought it was the most "grotesque assemblage of noises" he had ever heard. But many years later, he has recorded a Grammy-winning version of the symphony.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's search for a new musical director who doesn't mind the broad range of duties. Conductor Daniel Barenboim is leaving the job, saying it involved too many non-artistic demands.

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra brings a wonderfully weird program to Carnegie Hall, including the New York premiere of a new electric violin concerto by Terry Riley, with soloist Tracy Silverman.

Noting Shostakovich's 100th birthday on Sept. 25, we begin a week of Shostakovich exploration with Leon Botstein, Laurel Fay and Valery Gergiev.

A newly reissued set of symphonies from the decades after World War II recovers a gifted yet neglected composer, Vadim Salmanov. These live recordings burn with intensity and sorrow.