Arts Jul 06 Castleton Festival Is Part Celebration, Part Training Ground for Musicians and Singers In central Virginia's Rappahanock County, the four-year-old Castleton Festival is part traditional summer music festival and part music training program. Jeffrey Brown talks to founder and renowned conductor Lorin Maazel.
Arts Sep 30 Conversation: A.E. Stallings, Poet and Translator Inspired by the Classics The MacArthur Awards were recently announced, and one of the winners this year was the poet and translator A.E. Stallings.
Arts Sep 28 Extended Interview: Russell Banks Discusses ‘Lost Memory of Skin’ A squalid encampment under a causeway in an American city is the unusual and charged setting for a new novel, "Lost Memory of Skin," which explores some deep issues of American life rarely raised and rarely seen by most of…
Arts Sep 23 Conversation: Francisco Nunez, Choral Conductor for Kids Nunez is the artistic director of the Young People's Chorus of New York City, which he also founded in 1988.
Arts Sep 22 R.E.M. Breaks Up (Everybody Cries) After 31 years as a band, R.E.M. announced Wednesday that they're calling it quits.
Arts Sep 20 Musicians, Poets, Silversmith Among 2011 MacArthur Fellows Seven of this year's MacArthur grant recipients are artists, musicians, writers or designers.
Arts Sep 09 Conversation: ‘Rebirth’ Tells Stories of Healing After Attacks From 2002 to 2009, director Jim Whitaker and a film crew chronicled the lives of five people who were directly impacted by the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11 for a new documentary, "Rebirth."…
Arts Aug 26 In ‘Salvage the Bones,’ Jesmyn Ward Tells Personal Story of Hurricane Katrina "Salvage the Bones," a new novel by Jesmyn Ward, tells the story of a Mississippi Gulf Coast family in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in the U.S. now six years ago this week.
Arts Aug 25 Dave Stewart Gets the Blues for ‘Blackbird Diaries’ Dave Stewart, best known for the band the Eurythmics, has a new solo album called Blackbird Diaries.His first solo album in nearly 13 years was recorded in Nashville and is heavily influenced by the Blues and Americana music.