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This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with guest host Bill Morelock, features composers who supplied the music foundation for those suspenseful Hitchcock scenes. Not just Herrmann! Listen now!

Sounds of Blackness is more than a band or gospel choir; it's a cultural institution. That, says the group's longtime director, Gary Hines, was the mission given to them by a mentor at Macalester College in St. Paul, where the Grammy-winning group was founded more than 50 years ago.

Hear one of the intrepid violinist's 22 commissioned works, focusing on the harrowing year that was 2020.

Composer Anthony Davis has been creating operas that center on the Black experience for years. With a recent thirst for Black operas, it’s easy to forget composers who have been here all along. Find out more in the latest episode of the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope provide this week’s inspiration.

The play is based on Khaled Hosseini's 2003 best-selling novel, set in Afghanistan and among Afghan migrants in the United States.

The Mivos Quartet offers a new, colorful piece by Henry Threadgill and music by Robert Honstein inspired by the shimmering light at the Arctic Circle.

Michael R. Jackson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is about a young Black gay musical theater writer named Usher, who works as an usher at a Broadway show — just like Jackson once did.

On May 21, 2022, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra artistic partner, violinist, conductor and composer Pekka Kuusisto returned to the Ordway Center for a program featuring music by Cindy Cox, Louise Farrenc and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Listen to the concert now!

On the anniversary of the first Moon landing, this week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with guest host Bill Morelock, features films with an interplanetary theme including tracks from ‘Star Trek,’ ‘The Martian’ and ‘Apollo 13.’ Listen now!