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This past week, composer John Williams joined National Symphony Orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to open a multi-concert series "Soundtracks: Music and Film." NPR's Liane Hansen visited with the two musicians.

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

Violinist Gil Shaham joined conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the orchestra for Brahms' Violin Concerto plus the Shostakovich Sixth and the New York premiere of Kaija Saariaho's 'Laterna Magica.'

In time for Earth Day, McPartland pays loving tribute to an early environmental hero, Rachel Carson, in a composition for symphony and improvised piano. The piece begins with a simple bird-song motif and moves through both the triumph of nature and its possible dramatic end.

On this edition we talk with Juan Heredia who recovers drowning victims when Search and Rescue gives up and we talk to an anonymous whistleblower at the EPA about how massive cuts would greatly impact air quality in Lane County.

The Institute for Health and the Built Environment at the University of Oregon is on the cutting edge of making sure healthy microbes are in our buildings. Co-Director Mark Fretz speaks with Oregon Grapevine host, Barbara Dellenback, about the connection between buildings and nature. What is beyond framing and windows? He emphasizes the importance of fresh air and light to our health.

Students from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance are on a cultural and musical exchange tour-- in Costa Rica.

100 years ago this week, some of the bloodiest race riots this country has ever experienced erupted in more than two dozen cities, including Chicago. It was known as the Red Summer.

Rep. Darin Harbick’s son was at the Jan. 6 insurrection four years ago, but the lawmaker took issue with a Eugene Weekly story.

Tension over diversity, equity and inclusion policies on campus are setting back faculty union negotiations at Lane Community College.