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The conductor who worked with the Minneapolis symphony for more than 50 years — and brought them to national prominence — died Tuesday at age 93.

With work spanning much of the Soviet era, the conductor served as an important and prominent conduit between Russia and the West. He died Saturday at age 87.

Baltimore Symphony Conductor Marin Alsop's latest musical adventure muses on a famous meeting between the troubled composer Gustav Mahler and the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.

A new study has found that warmer streams and rivers could actually contribute to climate change by releasing more carbon dioxide into the air.

NPR's Eyder Peralta plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WUNC listener Aaron Jones of Cary, North Carolina.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play this week's puzzle with Michael LeBlanc of Ontario, Canada.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Crystal VanArtsdalen and puzzle master Will Shortz.

The iconoclastic Eugene lawmaker says he was targeted for taking on gerrymandering. He's calling out his party's way of doing business.

The star violinist's new multi-year project goes to the heart of a difficult and fascinating era: the 1930s, when dazzle and sorrow commingled musically.

Orchestras are looking for ways to attract new and younger audiences to the concert hall. One solution may be "CoCo" -- the Concert Companion. It's a handheld digital device that displays program notes that are synched with the music. NPR's Fred Child reports on tests of the device at this summer's Aspen Music Festival.