For this party, we bring you composer/cellist/trombonist Dana Leong, who will collaborate with artists from his latest recording/performance series Life After Dark with Haitian turntablist Val-Inc, Japanese koto extraordinaire Yumi Kurosawa and Afro-Cuban tap pioneer Max Pollak.

John Schaefer, the creator of the esteemed annual New Sounds Live concert series, will host the American Premiere of David Lang's choral version of The Little Match Girl Passion, performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers, conducted by Harold Rosenbaum.

The Greene Space and PEN's Prison Writing Program will convene luminaries from the New York theater world--Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian,  and others--to read pieces that will be chosen from the best of the winning manuscripts of the Prison Writing contest.

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, stars of the film Once and the duo behind the folk-pop group The Swell Season, join us to pit love songs against breakup songs.  And: violinist Joshua Bell performs with the hot young Latin band Tiempo Libre and the singer-pianist Frankie Moreno.

In this live broadcast of The Leonard Lopate Show tennis great Andre Agassi discusses his life on and off the court and his new memoir, Open. Also: Orhan Pamuk, 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize, comedienne Susie Essman, and Christopher Andrew, U.K. intelligence historian.

Studio 360 will take you where no audience has gone before: traveling through time. In this live show hosted by Kurt Andersen, scientists and artists explain why time travel is more than an idle fantasy. And musical sensation Janelle Monae embodies an android with a heart of gold.