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The Montreal-based indie-rockers in the band Stars have just released their third album, Set Yourself On Fire. The group blends horns and striking keyboard effects to produce songs that are imaginative and melodic.

Pianist and composer Fred Hersch has created his own jazz-infused arrangement of texts from Walt Whitman's exultant poem Leaves of Grass. We take you to Zankel Hall for the New York premiere.

Bill Harley's lyrics are smart, funny and sometimes poignant. He writes for children, but he's known for helping parents remember what it was like to be a kid.

A new book uncovers the research of John Work, who accompanied folklorist Alan Lomax on a trip to the Mississippi Delta in the early 1940s. They documented the music heard in churches, blues joints and cotton fields of the South.

Two years ago, singing herdsmen from Mongolia traveled to Nevada for a musical exchange with a group of singing cowboys. In September, the herdsmen hosted their American counterparts on the Mongolian steppe.

Hear the Washington National Opera perform George Gershwin's legendary musical in its entirety. The full performance originally webcast live on NPR.org from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

NPR's Tony Cox talks with jazz pianist Joe Sample about his first-ever solo album. Sample, best know for his ensemble work with the Jazz Crusaders, steps out with a new CD, Soul Shadows.

When European musical notation began in the 8th and 9th centuries, the Western world was already filled with music. Sacred chants and secular songs were rich with melody, rhythm and harmony. Richard Taruskin begins our chronicle with the early music of the church.

The fourth installment of our series on the state of music education in America's schools focuses on youth orchestras. NPR's Korva Coleman speaks with renowned National Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin about the University of Maryland's National Orchestra Institute.

Emeline Michel has been called the "queen of Haitian song," and her voice conjurs visions of beaches with lapping surf and the brown faces of the people of her island homeland. She talks to NPR's Allison Keyes about the message of her music.