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Gac Filipaj worked as a janitor at Columbia University. But in the morning and in the middle of the night he studied and after 12-years, he has graduated from the school with honors.

It was an "was unbelievably interesting experience," he says, but "I had plenty of the limelight."

A tiny tax hike between the World Wars started a musical revolution. Hear a community band from Wisconsin play the Iowa Band Law March, which celebrates municipal support of music.

Meredith Monk's march lives up to its "Light" name — it's a pure distillation of joy.

When 13-year-old Andrew Pawelczyk's cymbal went flying during a junior high band's playing of the national anthem, he thought for a moment about what to do. Then he turned to the flag. Now the video of his salute is going viral.

Education Minister Shai Piron had to ditch his Knesset speech after he got tripped up by the word "penetration."

Meta music: Mozart's Orientalist fantasy, tweaked by Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say.

Hear the march that accompanied the wedding of William and Kate — and Charles and Diana: William Walton's Crown Imperial, originally written for the Duke of Windsor.

NPR Correspondent Sylvia Poggioli's profile of pianist and music teacher Francesco Lotoro sheds light on efforts to reclaim a body of music both created and hidden in the Holocaust.

Two recent Stanford graduates are trying to get more girls interested in technology — by embedding it in dollhouses. The founders of Roominate, Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen, took the concept of building toys for girls to a whole new level by adding wires and generators.