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Steve Harwell, the former lead singer of Smash Mouth has died at the age of 56. The cause of death was acute liver failure, according to the band's manager.

Set in a Bohemian village, Smetana's opera is deeply rooted in the musical and cultural traditions of the composer's homeland, yet has also become one of the world's most popular comic operas.

Handel's quirky, 1730 comedy belied his reputation as a composer of "opera seria," a deadly serious genre filled with death and despair.

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra will travel to North Korea on Monday after performing on Sunday in Beijing. Observers are watching and hoping — cautiously — that this is a sign that North Korea is more willing to open up to the outside world.

In 1966, a couple months before he was set to graduate, Otis Taylor was told he needed to cut his short afro or he'd be kicked out. Now, 57 years after he left, he has received a diploma.

This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.

Cooper plays the legendary composer and Carey Mulligan is his wife, Felicia Montealegre, in a new drama that exquisitely renders Bernstein's musical brilliance and human flaws.

Saxophonist Gabe Baltazar is one of the last living links to an era when Asian-Americans began to make a name for themselves in jazz. Now, at the age of 83, he's sharing his story in an autobiography.

A handful of NPR music stations attended the annual music conference. This is what they'll bring back to their airwaves.

New Zealand musician Nadia Reid talks about how homesickness fueled the songs on her latest album, Out of My Province.