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The Prague native was a proud promoter of his country's musical heritage — from Antonín Dvorák to Bohuslav Martinu — with the world's top orchestras. (Image credit: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)

NIH Director Francis Collins and Renée Fleming, who is Artistic Advisor at Large for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., discuss music and medicine. They also sing a duet. (Image credit: Shelby Knowles/NPR)

The legendary diva, who died 40 years ago this year, muses on stardom and fate — both on stage and off — in a luxurious new book of pictures and words. (Image credit: RDA/Getty Images)

The Russian pianist, known for his fiery technique, scales back to let his instrument sing sweetly in an autumnal miniature from late in the career of Johannes Brahms. (Image credit: Marco Borggreve/Sony Classical )

The annual ceremony, held in New York Thursday night, also honored Motown founder Berry Gordy, producer Max Martin, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Babyface and members of the band Chicago. (Image credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Songwriters Hall Of Fame)

Penguin Cafe folds in sounds from around the world and throughout music history — Africa, Kraftwerk, Brazil and Franz Schubert. (Image credit: Claire Harbage/NPR)

Jason Haaheim was a senior scientist at a nanotech company before deciding he wanted to play in a professional orchestra. He's now principal timpanist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. (Image credit: Justin Haaheim/Courtesy of Jason Haaheim)

With the aid of motion capture technology, and an imaginative digital artist, the gestures of the London Symphony Orchestra's conductor are transformed into trippy new animations. (Image credit: Oliver Helbig/Courtesy of the Artist)

What happens when cultural doors open between the U.S. and Cuba? Beautiful moments like this mix of Mozart and a Cuban classic — with Brooklyn pianist Simone Dinnerstein and an orchestra from Havana. (Image credit: Articulate)

The conductor, who cut his tenure short as the New York Philharmonic's music director, finds a welcoming new home — with a glitzy new concert hall — in Hamburg, Germany. (Image credit: Andrew Toth/Getty Images)

Celebrate the sunniest of seasons with the German prodigy's timeless Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Image credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Six classically-trained musicians, rooted in six different countries, come together to perform a new composition inspired by Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." (Image credit: From the Top)

Four talented musicians — Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, James McAlister and Bryce Dessner — joined forces to create a constellation of sound dedicated to the planets, black holes and comets. (Image credit: Courtesy of the artist)

On a new album, the Grammy-winning Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir sings new music by native son Tõnu Kõrvits and probes the windswept melancholy of the 18th-century English author's poetry. (Image credit: Courtesy of the artists)

The vanguard French artist — whose influence has touched everything from the Mean Girls soundtrack to the Futurama theme — has died at age 89. (Image credit: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)

Henry broke from his classical training to become of the foremost innovators of experimental composition in the 20th century. (Image credit: Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images)

High-school students hoping to go pro, adult amateurs and professors of the instrument all gather annually at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp in New Hampshire. (Image credit: Patty Wight/Maine Public Radio)

300 years ago, England's embattled King George I decided to divert public attention from the country's woes with a big musical party on the River Thames. (Image credit: Getty/Bettmann Archive)

The Apple co-founder's complicated story is the subject of The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs , by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. It premieres Saturday in Santa Fe. (Image credit: Ken Howard/Courtesy of the Santa Fe Opera)

"Light Blooms In Hollow Space" isn't overly complicated — no need to overthink the quiet power of a musically evocative space and the heart-melting melody that overtakes it. (Image credit: Laura Steele / Malin Johansson)

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