New Classical Tracks: Daniel Hope's Space Music

Carl Sagan, Philip Glass, J. S. Bach, Karl Jenkins, Yehudi Menuhin — they all played a role in shaping Daniel Hope's new disc, inspired by the ancient concept of the music of the spheres.

• Morning Glories: Summer is here!
  Every weekday morning at 10 a.m., the hosts at Classical MPR play a stand-out work based on the theme for the week. We call them Morning Glories.
• Regarding Broadway: Part Three
  Part 3: Changing Times - Broadway Comes of Age
• The Fantasticks: a visit with Skylark Opera's fantastic cast
  Cast members from Skylark Opera sing selections from "The Fantasticks"
• Regional Spotlight: Vanska, Billmeyer, and Turner
  In today's Regional Spotlight, Osmo Vanska occupies a different role -- that of a clarinetist -- is joined by pianist Susan Billmeyer and violist Thomas Turner in a performance of a piece that's perfect for summer.
• Grant Kirkhope and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
  Composer Grant Kirkhope lets his British roots shine in his score for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
• Flicks in Five: Jerome Moross
  It is a sad fact that the musical world, especially the film music world, didn't have Jerome Moross for a longer time. But what he left us was indeed impressive. His best known film score is from "The Big Country", a rather oddball Western about an out of place retired sea captain played by Gregory Peck, who arrives in the "wild West" and inadvertently takes on the established system he finds.