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Among the films nominated for best original score this year are two movies of fantasy and fright: The Village and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In part two of an Oscar music series, NPR's movie music buff Andy Trudeau listens to these film scores.

Cantinero is the musical pen name of Chris Hicken, a British singer-songwriter with a debut CD, Championship Boxing. Recorded in a spare bedroom in his New York apartment, the songs are full of the sounds of city living.

Performance Today's series on folk and classical traditions around the world continues with two Russian performances in NPR's Studio 4A: the Trio Voronezh and celebrated baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Lead singer Karen Peris of The Innocence Mission turns American standards into dreamy, jazzy lullabies on the group's sixth CD, Now The Day Is Over.

The Jazz Night in America team highlights a selection of 2022 entries that caught our ears and displays the expanse of what jazz has to offer.

NPR's Piano Jazz and WBGO in Newark honor the jazz singer and pianist Bobby Short with a look back at two of his live performances. The encore presentations include an appearance on Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland.

Each release in the "Heart" song series has signaled both an imminent new project and a new artistic beginning for Lamar.

To celebrate the second day of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, NPR presents selections from a recent concert by the Masters of Persian Music — an Iranian "supergroup" of classical musicians who accompany poems set to song with traditional Persian instruments.

In its latest attempt to stem file sharing, the music industry has developed a disc format that plays both on DVD and CD players. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports that a new album by a rock legend is about to shine the spotlight on this technology.

As the Appalachia Waltz Trio, fiddler Mark O'Connor, violist Carol Cook and cellist Natalie Haas combine the elegance of classical training with the rhythmic drive of American and Celtic roots music. The group performs music from their new CD Crossing Bridges in Studio 4A.