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This timeline covers major moments in the controversy surrounding R&B singer R. Kelly, up to 2021, when he was convicted for sexual exploitation of a child, racketeering, bribery and sex trafficking.

The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism says it is creating a blacklist of banned songs containing "illegal content" that it deems "subversive" at karaoke establishments starting Oct. 1.

After some ups and downs, Zoe Reynolds persisted and independently released her debut album. Hear a live performance.

Robert talks with opera singer Renee Fleming about her CD called simply, Renee Fleming. She's put together fourteen well-known arias written by Puccini, Bizet, Massenet and Verdi among others. (Decca Record Company, 2000)

Jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton died Tuesday in New York at the age of 90. His musical career spanned 70 years, and he played bass with almost every great 20th century jazz musician from Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway to John Coltrane.

The famed British music magazine is being absorbed by another publication after 74 years of making pop bands and driving the British music scene. The Maker, as it was known, publishes it's final issue today. It championed jazz, pop, and rock, from Louis Armstrong to Oasis. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

A new CD entitled The Two Tenors and Qantara offers highlights of a five-hour concert of Arabic music that took place last spring in Las Vegas. The "two tenors" are Wadi Al Safi and Sabah Fakhri. Qantara is an instrumental ensemble led by oud player Simon Shaheen. Banning Eyre attended the concert and reviews the recording.

Editors ROBERT GOTTLIEB and ROBERT KIMBALL have collaborated on the new book –Reading Lyrics— (Pantheon Books), an anthology of some of the most important lyricists of the last century, including the lyrics of George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Dorothy Field, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, and more. The book covers the time period 1900-1975. ROBERT GOTTLIEB is the author of –Reading Jazz,— and ROBERT KIMBALL is the editor of complete lyrics collections of Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, and Lorenz Hart. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Classical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews Bach Christmas Cantatas, a new boxed set featuring the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jon Pareles, music critic for the New York Times. Pareles has logged year after year reviewing holiday releases, and says the Christmas music genre does a good job of representing the wide array of American attitudes toward the holiday. And, while there's a plethora of recordings out there, Pareles says a few notable ones do stand out.