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As the pandemic continues, families in the Eugene 4J school district are trying to navigate online learning, as well as the future reopening of school…

The Cedar Creek Fire crossed containment lines near Lucas Lake in the past few days. Fire Officials say the unseasonably warm and dry weather will create "critical conditions" throughout the week.

The music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra may be the finest American conductor since Leonard Bernstein. After conducting the Metropolitan Opera for 34 years, James Levine took over the BSO from Seiji Ozawa last year.

Conductor Marin Alsop examines the rarely heard music from early in Aaron Copland's career. With an ear toward Copland's bold and sometimes jazzy rhythms, Alsop says that listeners can hear hints of the wide expanses that would later open up in music such as Appalachian Spring.

The Catholic mass Beethoven called Missa Solemnis is rarely performed. But considered in partnership with the much more famous Ninth Symphony, it sheds light on the composer's spiritual view.

NPR celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the 13th annual "A King Celebration" — a musical tribute featuring the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs. NPR's Fred Child hosts.

Over the years, the popularity of Aaron Copland's ballets Appalachian Spring, Rodeo and Billy the Kid — with their tuneful, wide open spaces — have overshadowed some of his earlier works. But today, Performance Today focuses on one of those works, his Symphonic Ode.

Earlier this year, Georgia Baxter-Krause of wood products company J.H. Baxter pleaded guilty to violating environmental laws, then lying about it to federal regulators. An attorney with a class-action lawsuit says having Baxter-Krause pay fines and serve time helps his case, but restitution for victims still seems far from certain.

In the same way that traits like height or eye color are inherited-- genetic mutations that can cause cancer are also passed down through generations. This is the story of four sisters living with a family legacy of breast cancer and how differently each sibling has faced her odds of developing the deadly disease.

If Oregon’s recent cold snap has you shivering, and the ice and snow in the forecast seem unusual, take solace. The state climatologist feels it too — even when he’s looking at data that seems to contradict the way he feels.