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We sometimes regard J.S. Bach as the quintessential conservative church musician, and it's true, that was his day job. But he was no stick-in-the-mud, and we'll look at some of his lighter music as we celebrate his 339th birthday this Sunday.

We're going to hear some French music "of a certain age" this week, we'll skip to another age and place for an hour of J.S. Bach, and then some music by American Paul Creston, and soon-to-become-American Kurt Weill.

We begin a series this Sunday of the fifteen symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich in the context of the times in which they were written. Our story begins with the Symphony #1, a student piece from his conservatory days and this week's featured work.

We come to No.7 in our series of the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich, written largely while the city was under siege. Shostakovich had been labeled an "Enemy of the People" not long before; now he was a "Hero of the Soviet Union."

After decades of working under the Soviet thumb, Dmitri Shostakovich finally vented his own frustration and rage in his 13th Symphony, a musical setting of the already suppressed poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Claudia Grisales is a congressional reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.

Robert Benincasa is a computer-assisted reporting producer in NPR's Investigations Unit.

On Saturday and Sunday, November 1st and 2nd, the nation's top ten young jazz pianists will compete for over $10,000.00 in prizes in Gleason Performing…

The news is sure to be a hot topic on the campaign trail as President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney push to the Nov. 6 election.

An LA chef and his partner are cooking up recipes using ingredients that require less water to grow and cook with. They want to get us thinking about the resources that go into growing our food.