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KLCC welcomes BirdNote to its airwaves and talks with Eugene artist Emily Poole, who brought the show’s vivid bird stories to life through art.

A legal service in Eugene is helping individuals clear their criminal records, offering a path to new opportunities in employment and housing. The "Set Aside Clinic" assists eligible individuals in expunging past convictions, which organizers say removes significant barriers to rebuilding their lives.

For 23 years, the University of Oregon student radio station operated out of a former women’s bathroom in a hard-to-find hallway of the Erb Memorial…

For the past several years, recordings of symphony orchestras on major record labels have dwindled. In an effort to get their performances out to the public, some orchestras have started releasing records themselves. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

NPR's Renee Montagne talks to percussionist John Densmore about the new symphonic tribute to the rock band, The Doors. Densmore and the other two surviving members of the group like the album, which is getting mixed reviews. Their instrumental parts from the Doors repertoire were transcribed and arranged by Jaz Coleman and are performed by Nigel Kennedy and the Prague Symphony Orchestra.

Jeff Lunden reports on Steven Isserlis, one of the most sought after cellists in the world. For nearly two decades he's performed with almost all of the major symphony orchestras, made critically acclaimed recordings and written a children's book. Tonight, Isserlis is making his debut with the New York Philharmonic.

To mark the end of this palindromic year 2002, we enjoy a bit of music and drama with a palindrome theme. First we hear Joseph Hayden's 47 symphony in G: Palindrome. That's followed by a short performance of Palindrome -- a play written in palindrome form. The play was written by Mike Clelland and performed by the NPR Players.

NPR's Alex Van Oss reports on Lang Lang, a brilliant young pianist from China. The 18-year-old will make his Carnegie Hall debut this week in a performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Some critics already are hailing him as one of the great pianists of our time.

Robert Siegel sits down with violinist Chien Tan for a performance and chat. Tan plays the violin with the Oregon Symphony; she is also one of just a handful of people playing the treble violin, an instrument about the size of a "quarter-size" standard violin and plays an octave higher.

On String Theory, out Nov. 9, the band revisits its catalog and performs new songs with the aid of a 46-piece symphony orchestra. Watch Hanson perform "Siren Call."