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This year, our reporting took us to museums, libraries and symphonies; to Edisto Island, Hollywood, New York and beyond. Culture Desk reporters say these are the stories that will stick with them.

A version of the hit "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot and the Seattle Symphony drew a large crowd of dancers to the stage this weekend.

In the 1950s, Nikolaus Harnoncourt was a cellist in the Vienna Symphony, tired of playing Mozart in a style he could not stomach. He quit the orchestra and started one of his own.

On this edition, we talk with Jake Swantko, an academy-award winning documentary filmmaker who graduated from the University of Oregon and has gone own to make important films like Icarus - which exposes doping in international sports.

Forecasted cool temperatures and rain will likely impede growth this weekend or next week.

EMI has just reissued a broad spectrum of German conductor Otto Klemperer's recordings, including a box set of one of the composers he's most associated with: Gustav Mahler.

The composer-in-residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bates has also been a DJ for 10 years. Here, he describes his double life in classical and electronic music.

Ewing's 1919 looks back on a century-old riot in Chicago, set off after a black teen drowned while being stoned by white people. She says the systemic racism that plagued the U.S. then still exists.

Performance Today remembers Coretta Scott King with a musical tribute. From the 2005 edition of the annual King Celebration concert, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the glee clubs of Morehouse and Spelman colleges perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

In Washington, several aspiring conductors get a chance to learn from a maestro. Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, offers his young charges advice ranging from clothing tips to the physicality of the job. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.