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Working with the classical sextet yMusic has helped open Ben Folds' songwriting to new possibilities. The pop pianist's new song is maybe his most lovable yet.

All the trophies given out at the 60th annual Grammy Awards.

Over the next week, NPR's Performance Today will broadcast selections from Lincoln Center's 2004 Mostly Mozart Festival, including the opening night gala featuring mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, pianist Yefim Bronfman and conductor Louis Langree.

The Erroll Garner Jazz Project is collaborating on a deep, retrospective reissue of the composer and piano prodigy's live work, marking his 100th birthday in September.

For nearly 200 years, Beethoven's epic Ninth Symphony, with its powerful "Ode to Joy," has inspired millions. Now conductor Marin Alsop takes it on a world tour.

The instrument, known as "Lipinski" was stolen from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's concert master last week.

Mystical Russian composer Alexander Scriabin saw music, heard colors and wrote music that goes from ecstasy to frenzy. Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop explores Scriabin's best-known piece.

A second-generation American, he was one of the most prominent conductors of the post-World War II era, leading orchestras and opera companies on both sides of the Atlantic. He died Sunday at 84.

A judge says Ian Brady will be cremated with "no music and no ceremony" — rejecting a plan to play the "Witches' Sabbath" portion of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

Gustavo Dudamel has been called "the Obama of classical music." Hear the charismatic 28-year-old conductor from Venezuela officially take over the Los Angeles Philharmonic with a gala opening concert that includes a new piece by John Adams, as well as Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1.