Music is the passionate topic of our two interviewees. Readers say it best. On Melanie Demore: "A breathtaking, spine-straightening, magnetic interview. Makes me want to clap--with my whole body." And about Gail Needleman: "Thank you for this superb conversation! I wish it could be read by the millions, because it's an antidote for the poison of music as a replicable product, an object of consumption and a tool of manipulation." And the additional content is on a par: portfolios by sculptors Wanxin Zhang and Sam Perry as well as Anne Veh's feature on 92-year-old local legend Betty Peck. And we present the concluding installment of Enrique Martinez Celaya's remarkable meditation on art and values, Guide.