ASHEVILLE — After 10 years, Asheville Choral Society music director Lenora Thom will direct her last concert for the group in May.

Brazil says it may let local companies break U.S. patents on products including movies, music, pharmaceutical products and chemicals.

In this week’s show, we examine the Knife’s new Charles Darwin-inspired opera, Tomorrow, in a Year, with Olof Dreijer. Be warned, his voice is distorted, but we do have Planningtorock (Janine Rostron) on hand to speak (in a normal voice) about collaborating with Sweden’s most talented siblings on the unlikeliest of projects. Alexis and Rosie are joined by Film & Music editor Michael Hann for …

British songwriters, composers and music publishers earned 623 million pounds ($944.8 million) in royalties in 2009, up 2.6 percent on 2008 and the first time the growth in digital revenues outperformed the drop in CD and DVD earnings.