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On Fronteras:-- Energy companies navigate fluctuating crude oil prices. Who will survive?-- Where is all the stolen oil-field equipment headed?-- Trucking…

This week on Fronteras:--A coalition comes together to fight unprecedented natural gas pipelines in West Texas near Big Bend that would transport energy…

This week on Fronteras:A look at the history of U.S. efforts to contain immigration and drug smuggling with barriers on our southern border with Mexico.…

Improvisation is a skill once prized by classical composers over a century ago. Thomas Fedorchik wants to bring it back.

On the second morning of competition at The Gurwitz International Piano Competition, judges and spectators were treated to the artistry of three talented…

From among the group's ranks, members will share their musical talents as composers and conductors, beyond just performing on an instrument.

Stephen Sondheim took American musical theater to places it had never gone before through harmonic invention, and of course, in his lyrics. The Library of Congress recently acquired materials from Sondheim's estate—and TPR's James Baker interviewed the man tasked with overseeing the collection, Mark Horowitz.

The 2024 season of Momentos Musicales comes to an end as the ensemble Inti-Illimani presents “Quiaquenita” and Gabriela Ortiz returns alongside pianist Ana Cervantes with her extraordinary “Estudio No. 3.” Eugenio Toussiant has the honor of the final bars of music with his “Palabras sin Sonida,” words without sound.

We board the steamboat El Dorado in Leticia, Colombia on a journey to Manaus, Brazil, a destination famous for both its isolation and its famed opera house. The Mexican composer, Daniel Catán, writes music representing the dangers of river navigation and also the psychological states the Amazon River induces in travelers. Flutist Laurel Zucker tells her own stories of travels into the Amazon Basin.

If one wanted to draw a neatly pruned tree showing the progression of popular music in Brazil, it might begin with choro, transitioning over time into an array of dances, distinctly Brazilian. In this episode of "Momentos Musicales" KPAC's James Baker listens to the sound of the choro through the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos.