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Beyoncé, who led all artists with 11 nominations, won the Grammy for album of the year. Kendrick Lamar won record and song of the year, and Chappell Roan won best new artist.

On this edition, we talk with OPB's Kyra Buckley about how the new WNBA Portland Fire basketball team is coming along. They recently announced their schedule even thought they haven't signed any players as yet. Then we talk to KLCC reporters Julia Boboc and Nathan Wilk about their experience covering local protests.

The Metropolitan Opera suspended, and then fired, Levine after several men came forward with accusations that the conductor had sexually abused them.

The famed conductor Charles Dutoit has been accused of sexual misconduct by four women including opera star Sylvia McNair. Six major orchestras have distanced themselves from him.

Philip Smith — principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, former teacher of Wynton Marsalis and hero to brass nerds everywhere — is retiring. Hear what makes him so idolized.

America's top orchestras are programming little or no music by women. Philadelphia has now included two works by female composers. A month ago it had zero.

Stars Like Fleas' music is disjointed, meandering, chaotic, and wonderfully unique. The group's second full-length release, The Ken Burns Effect, is a gorgeous jaunt through experimental orchestral pop that is as engaging as it is utterly confusing. The record seems at times aimless and at other times perfectly composed, if insanely so. With a wealth of instruments (at the album's recording the group was a 12-piece collective) that clash as often as they harmonize and tracks that drift from beautiful symphonies to discordant pandemonium on a whim, the album stands as a work of mad genius. Stars Like Fleas have created a sound that, though certainly not easily digestible, is extremely rich.

The young British composer's playful pieces split the difference between art-pop and electric minimalism, and her new video adds to the grid-like, artsy fun.

One of the world's top original instruments ensembles, the Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra, plays Beethoven by the book.

Perhaps the ultimate bel canto classic, Bellini's masterpiece features a powerful story and one of the most challenging soprano roles in opera. This production is a rare chance to hear selections from Norma the opera performed on original instruments, by the excellent orchestra Europa Galante.