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Napoleon didn’t get much respect — not musically. This Sunday we’ll hear from three composers — Beethoven, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky — who regarded his reverses with satisfaction and weren’t shy about trumpeting (excuse the pun) their delight at his misfortunes.

When is a prelude not a prelude? When it doesn’t lead to something else? Apparently not. Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Scriabin, and other composers wrote heaps of preludes that are actually preludes to nothing. We’ll look at some of these this week in a program of preludes.

It was 1890 and thirteen-year-old Pablo Casals was poking around in a Barcelona second hand store when he came across a tattered volume of J.S. Bach’s six cello suites: works that were practically unknown. We’ll hear the first of these suites — by Pablo Casals — this Sunday, and we will continue with these historical recordings over the next five weeks.

Police are still not saying what motivated the gunman who walked into a crowded Aurora, Colo., movie theater and opened fired. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was apprehended immediately after the attack. Until recently, he was a grad student studying neuroscience.

Louisville, Kansas, Indiana and Gonzaga are the No. 1 seeds in the four regions of the NCAA Division I men's basketball championship. Now it's time to start picking your winners if you're a college basketball fan.

Mr. Z’s Top Blues Albums for 2015 (in no particular order)Artist - Album - LabelDoug MacLeod - Exactly Like This - Reference RecordingsJohn Cocuzzi - Ding…

Ann Powers picks her favorite chart-topping, radio-dominating songs of 2012.

The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy.

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