MUSIC

UMass professor will lead the science team to develop the NASA's new PRIMA telescope, Ken Burns will join a fundraiser for the Northampton Community Music School, and Merriam-Webster releases the newest Scrabble dictionary.

NPR Music culture critic and reporter Rodney Carmichael ruminates on the latest in rap culture. This week: Is the rap mogul's self-selection a crowning achievement or a final affront?

We speak with museum staff at newly-renovated Berkshire Museum and catch a "Surprise Serenade" with a string quartet of Tanglewood fellows.

Live Music Friday with the animated Doctor Gasp, an interactive performance "The Teaspoon Brigade," Field Lenox this weekend, and conversation with MGM Springfield President Louis Theros.

Springfield Symphony Orchestra's season begins this weekend, professor Ousmane Power-Greene discusses the Power of History and the Word Nerd shows us the newest slang.

We learn about the UMass Game Jam, Franklin Community Co-op's incoming upgrade, and talk to members of the Blind Boys of Alabama.

We celebrate a new album from Kimaya Diggs, "Green," visit the Eric Carle Museum's new exhibit, and chat with Word Nerd Emily Brewster.

NPR Music culture critic and reporter Rodney Carmichael ruminates on the latest in rap culture. This week: an unbothered, radically different, equal but opposite response to rap's podcast bros.

We have Live Music Friday with the Sam Grisman Project, see the community project born from NEPM's own art tour event, and pit Cabernets together for the latest Wine Thunderdome.

The deep-voiced Scottish mezzo-soprano just made her Royal Opera House debut. Now, with her debut solo album, The Deeps Have Music, she is on the doorstep of stardom.