One of the original performers at Newport Folk Festivals of yore, Judy Collins came back with a voice that remains stunning. Another Newport alum, Joan Baez, joined Collins onstage for "Diamonds and Rust."

In 1993, English composer Peter Maxwell Davies wrote A Spell for Green Corn: The MacDonald Dances, which spawned this warm and spirited Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra farewell concert for conductor Nicholas McGegan, whose hands have conjured up 20 years of musical feasts in St. Paul. This past spring, McGegan concluded his formal relationship as one of the "Artistic Partners" of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra by leading an all-English program from three centuries.

Pomegranate's album, Everybody, Come Outside!, is full of the same first-day-of-summer exuberance that you'd expect in any excitable child yelling for his friends to come out and play.

Spurred by the birth of his son, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer investigates the system that puts meat on our plates.