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It's a beautiful autumn day, so let's do a verbal art walk in pursuit of beauty and adventure.

Proper pruning could help preserve the urban forest during the next storm.

Lane County's first Free Compost Day event of 2024 is on Nov. 10, part of the Willamette Farm & Food Coalition's "Fill Your Pantry" event.

Amid the global generosity movement of Giving Tuesday, people far and wide are donating to community organizations. This year, two Oregon school districts…

Deveau and the Borromeo String Quartet perform piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven as chamber music on a new recording. Lloyd Schwartz says the album is "full of feeling and discovery."

Lorin Maazel leads the revered orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and his own 'Ring Without Words' — Wagner's 'Ring' whittled down to 70 singer-free minutes.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Fred Child, host of NPR's Performance Today, about the music of American composer Amy Beach. In her time, Beach was the most-performed American composer. Child shares the story of her musical life and selections from two of her longer works, the Piano Concerto and the Gaelic Symphony.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plans to perform American composer John Corigliano's "The Red Violin" -- a concerto for violin and orchestra -- Thursday. The debut will feature one of the leading violinists in classical music, Joshua Bell. The concerto uses themes from Corigliano's Academy Award-winning score for the film of the same name. NPR's Lisa Simeone has a profile.

Aaron Copland always harbored a secret desire to conduct, but his mentor, conductor Serge Koussevitzky, told him to stay home and write. After Koussevitzky died, Copland took up the baton. He talked with NPR's Fred Calland about his conducting during their 1980 interview.

A group of people known as "double disapprovers" in key swing states could determine who wins the presidential election.