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At this summer's Aspen Music Festival, pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel open with a short piece by Alexander Borodin. Then, violist Masao Kawasaki and violinist Lev Polyakin join Finckel and Han onstage for the closing movement of the Piano Quartet by William Walton.

In his Portsmouth Point Overture, English composer William Walton captures the colorful, bawdy sights and sounds of an 1811 Thomas Rowlandson painting of the same name. Joann Falletta conducts the Juilliard Symphony at New York's Lincoln Center.

In The March, novelist E.L. Doctorow applies his distinctive approach to historical fiction to events of the Civil War -- especially Gen. William T. Sherman's decisive, destructive assault on Georgia and the Carolinas.

Some pure Americana comes from the pen of recent four-time Grammy winner William Bolcom. His "Ragomania" honors jazz great Eubie Blake and Bolcom's idol George Gershwin. Marin Alsop conducts the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

Yossi Klein Halevi is the Israeli correspondent for the New Republic magazine. He was born and raised in New York City. He's lived in Jerusalem since 1982. His book Memoirs of Jewish Extremist: An American Story is about his years first as a follower and then as an opponent of Rabbi Meir Kahane. His latest book is At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jews Search for God With Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land (William Morrow).

Muhammad Ali is one of the most admired sports stars in America today. Fewer than 30 years ago however, he was a clear symbol of a divided nation. In part one of our look at the life of Muhammad Ali, NPR's Senior Correspondent Juan Williams talks with the former champ about his controversy that surrounded him both inside and outside the ring.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's near-sweep in Tuesday's 10-state contests all but secured his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Juan Williams about what is next for the Kerry campaign and its eight-month competition with President Bush for the White House.

NPR's Juan Williams talks to Mary Beth Cahill, campaign manager for Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry. Cahill says Kerry plans to respond forcefully to negative ads by the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.

President Bush announces late Friday he is using his recess appointment power to name Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to a federal appeals court, circumventing the opposition to Pryor by Democrats in the U.S. Senate. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Slate contributor Ben Williams sums up what critics are saying about this weekend's major new film premieres. This week: Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon, and the mystery thriller Wicker Park.

-- Ben Williams of Slate presents a weekly roundup of what film critics are saying about this weekend's new major studio film premieres: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Suspect Zero and The Brown Bunny.

Slate contributor Ben Williams presents a roundup of what film critics are saying about this weekend's major new movie premieres. This week: Friday Night Lights, Taxi and Raise Your Voice.

Slate contributor Ben Williams offers a weekly round-up of what film critics are saying about the weekend's major new movie releases, including The Forgotten, First Daughter and The Motorcycle Diaries.

Slate contributor Ben Williams reports on what film critics are saying about this weekend's major new movie releases: The Chronicles of Riddick, Garfield: The Movie and The Stepford Wives.

NPR's Andrea Seabrook talks to tennis coach Rick Macci about today's upset of Serena Williams by Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon. The 17-year-old Sharapova is the first Russian to win the women's Wimbledon title.

Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is recovering from a tracheotomy performed over the weekend as part of his treatment for thyroid cancer. Some cancer researchers say the surgery suggests he may have an aggressive form of the disease. Hear NPR's Patricia Neighmond.

William Jackson Harper ( The Good Place) and Yvonne Orji ( Insecure) visit past Academy Awards ceremonies in an audio quiz about iconic Oscar speeches.

http://66.225.205.104/DW20090627.mp3The Charlotte region's unemployment rate increased last month to 12 percent after a slight decline in April. WFAE's…

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with William Quandt, Middle East advisor during the Carter Administration and currently professor of international relations at the University of Virginia, and Samuel Lewis, former Ambassador to Israel and currently couselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, about this week's emergency summit in Washington and the prospects for the middle east peace process.

Anne Williams reviews "The Light Pink Album," the latest CD by songwriter and performer Steven Allen Davis. The CD chronicles Davis' journey from Nashville, Tennessee to Boulder, Colorado. The record label is Core Entertainment Corp. Their address is 1719 West End Ave., 11th Floor West Tower, Nashville, TN 37203. (6:00) (IN S