David Krasnow

The songs in this collection of traditional Italian folk music were all written by, for, and about the Mafia, and provide a tantalizing oral history of Italy's mythic criminal universe.

When east coast photographer Nick Muellner set out for the arid basins of southeast Utah, he brought with him a book by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. And when Muellner's photographs turned out stranger than he expected, he found himself trying to crack open Nabokov's perfectly constructed literary images. 

Producer David Krasnow profiles the experimental composer Pauline Oliveros, who built her career on what she calls “deep listening.”

(Originally aired: April 25, 2002)

The myth of Icarus symbolizes fleeting glory, and the foolishness of flying too high, literally and figuratively. Spencer Finch is a painter who tried to depict that myth, and capture Icarus' hubris and doom. 

Margaret Leng Tan, a virtuoso of the grand piano, takes Schroeder's place at the plastic one.

Producer David Krasnow profiles the experimental composer Pauline Oliveros, who built her career on what she calls “deep listening.”