Oct 08 Watch Onetime Teacher, Student Find Success as Composer, Violinist Hilary Hahn and Jennifer Higdon shared a love of 20th century music when Higdon was Hahn's professor at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Fifteen years later, this student-teacher relationship has transformed into a partnership at the top of… Continue watching
Oct 07 Conversation: The Life and Work of Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Efrain Kristal, a UCLA professor of comparative literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, about the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. Continue reading
Oct 07 Around the Nation Roundup Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation. Continue reading
Oct 07 Upcoming: Ways To Deal With the Foreclosure Crisis By Paul Solman The past week's revelations of bank insouciance with regard to the legal niceties of foreclosure and eviction, most notably the robo-signers who admitted they did not read what they signed off on, have led to a national push… Continue reading
Oct 07 Peruvian Writer Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa. Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt,… Continue reading
Oct 07 Thursday's Art Notes By Tom LeGro In today's arts and culture headlines, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading
Oct 06 Sound Artist Christopher Janney Makes Music For the Public Arena Christopher Janney, a trained architect and a lifelong musician, creates public works of art that combine his two passions, bringing art to people in the places they make their everyday lives. Continue reading
Oct 06 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, flight attendants use the power of pop to keep their passengers' attention. Continue reading
Oct 05 Conversation: 'Going Back' With Phil Collins By Tom LeGro Released last week in America, Phil Collins' latest album, "Going Back," is his homage to the music idols of his youth. The collection of Motown and soul hits by the former drummer and lead singer of Genesis reached No. 1… Continue reading
Oct 05 Tuesday's Art Notes Today's arts and culture headlines include two strange robbery stories. Continue reading