Art has long been a way for people to honor and memorialize things in life that elude description in words. On this solemn date, today's Beautiful Music is a work by American composer John Adams that ...

The composer talks about his Pulitzer-winning piece, written for the first anniversary of Sept. 11. John Adams' Memory Space: 'On The Transmigration Of Souls' John Adams took on a major responsibility ...

The 47th annual Grammy Awards were presented on Sunday night honoring musical recordings in 107 categories from rock to rap. NPR s Performance Today presents a wrap-up of this year's classical music ...

Composer John Adams was announced yesterday as the 2003 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, for his piece "On the Transmigration of Souls." The music was Adams' response to the events of September ...

NEW YORK -- It took a year, but big-name artists are finally starting to respond to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with predictably mixed results. On Wednesday, Eric Fischl's "Tumbling Woman," a ...