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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.

NPR's Scott Simon reads from a letter written by activist Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind. It was written in 1924, after she listened to a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

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.

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.

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.

This is KLCC. I’m Connie Bennett, Director of Eugene Public Library, with a book review of "T is for Time” by Marie and Roland Smith, with illustrations…

Animal welfare advocates are holding an event this Saturday in Eugene to celebrate recent legislation, and to get more laws passed to protect pets. KLCC’s…