Andrew shares some upbeat American jazz records from the dark days of the Second World War in early 1944.

Andrew recommends the film Selma, the chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights via a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

In a new conversation, Andrew speaks with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti.

Andrew talks with poet, translator, and critic Peter Cole about his new book, The Invention of Influence, inspired by the life of Victor Tausk, a maverick and tragic early disciple of Sigmund Freud.  

In the second of a two-part Critic's Choice, Andrew reviews some of 2014's Chicago classical music highlights.

Poet and translator Peter Cole on Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain. Cole translated, edited and introduced The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492 (Princeton University Press).

In the first of a two-part Critic's Choice, Andrew reviews some of 2014's Chicago classical music highlights.

Andrew presents a program of music for the new year.

Andrew reads some poetry for the season.

Mary had a baby.  The Chicago Children's Choir merrily sings about this event (and more) on a 1973 Brewster LP recording Andrew shares.