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Beth Novey is a producer for NPR's Arts, Books & Culture desk. She creates and edits web features, plans multimedia projects, and coordinates the web presence for Fresh Air and Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!

Woods played in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a history-making all-female big band. She was 96.

Mstislav Rostropovich defined for his era the art and technique of playing the cello. His performance of Dvorak's stirring Cello Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic remains one of classical music's most lauded recordings.

Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is considered one of the most popular of all 20th-century classical works. Its 1938 premiere by the NBC Orchestra with conductor Arturo Toscanini is a recent selection for the National Recording Registry.

Whether outdoors in New York with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band or inside Orchestra Hall in Chicago at the Big River Concert, the Crescent City ambassadors keep the city's beat alive. With a banjo player in both camps, this show is divided between traditional and modern music.

To mark the sesquicentennial of the great French composer, a French piano virtuoso spins his favorite Debussy recordings.

Amy Mayer is a reporter based in Ames. She covers agriculture and is part of the Harvest Public Media collaboration. Amy worked as an independent producer for many years and also previously had stints as weekend news host and reporter at WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts and as a reporter and host/producer of a weekly call-in health show at KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska. Amy’s work has earned awards from SPJ, the Alaska Press Club and the Massachusetts/Rhode Island AP. Her stories have aired on NPR news programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition and on Only A Game, Marketplace and Living on Earth. She produced the 2011 documentary Peace Corps Voices, which aired in over 160 communities across the country and has written for The New York Times, Boston Globe, Real Simple and other print outlets. Amy served on the board of directors of the Association of Independents in Radio from 2008-2015.

Local composers and performers will be featured at a concert this weekend at the Wildish Theater in Springfield. Local Sounds, Local Stories features the…

The Eugene School District has finalized a contract with its classfied employees union.The school board approved the new 4-year agreement at its meeting…

The City of Eugene dedicates money to a homeless shelter, but without a location or timeline, Republicans start gathering signatures to recall Democratic…