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Tim Shantz conducts Luminous Voices' first car concert on Oct. 4, 2020.
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The Coronavirus Crisis

Car Concerts Offer Choirs A Way To Rehearse And Perform

Jan 11, 2021
This car choir solution is one that accomplished baritone David Newman came up with so that ensembles could sing "together." The method uses microphones, a mixer, an FM transmitter and car radios.
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Music
Baritone Will Liverman's upcoming album is devoted to Black composers past and present.

NPR's Classical Music Editor Previews 2 Albums You'll Want To Hear

Jan 11, 2021
NPR's resident classical music specialist Tom Huizenga previews two of the albums he's looking forward to spending time with in 2021.
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The Thistle & Shamrock
Award-winning author Alexander McCall Smith penned the lyrics to <em>These Are The Hands.</em>

The Thistle & Shamrock: 'These Are The Hands'

Jan 07, 2021
Meet internationally-acclaimed author Alexander McCall Smith and award-winning composer James Ross, who collaborated on song cycle These Are The Hands.
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Amplify With Lara Downes
Lara Downes talks with Jon Batiste.

How To Stay Human: Jon Batiste Talks With Lara Downes

Dec 26, 2020
The renowned musician and Late Show bandleader has sage advice on everything from finding your north star and owning your own orbit to honoring lineage.
Classical
Deceptive Cadence
The dance of death, an ancient image that inspired Thomas Adès to compose his <em>Totentanz</em>.

Music And Mayhem: A Diary Of Classical Albums For A Troubled 2020

Dec 21, 2020
NPR Music's classical editor traces the high points of a year spent listening to new albums that offered comfort and confrontation in counterpoint with the relentless world outside the headphones.
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Deceptive Cadence

Beethoven's Life, Liberty And Pursuit Of Enlightenment

Dec 17, 2020
Growing up in a progressive city, Ludwig van Beethoven embraced the ideals of the Enlightenment, the philosophical movement that shook Europe and helped shape the composer's music.
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Tiny Desk
Jan Vogler and Alessio Bax plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

Jan Vogler And Alessio Bax: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Dec 16, 2020
Join cellist Jan Vogler and pianist Alessio Bax at the "doctor's office," where they make the case for Beethoven as the liberator of the cello by playing music from his cello sonatas.
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Tiny Desk
Borromeo String Quartet plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

Borromeo String Quartet: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Dec 15, 2020
Members of the celebrated Borromeo String Quartet – playing it safe with masks – unlock the sillier side of Beethoven in music he wrote late in life.
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Tiny Desk
Jonathan Biss plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

Jonathan Biss: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Dec 14, 2020
To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, pianist Jonathan Biss explores the solitary side of the composer in extraordinary music written after Beethoven became deaf.
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Amplify With Lara Downes
Lara Downes talks with Davóne Tines.

Redemption And Connection: Lara Downes Talks With Davóne Tines

Dec 12, 2020
In conversation and in song, the opera singer and the pianist discover healing in a traumatized space.
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Series
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Encore Performances of Las Vegas Philharmonic on Classical 89.7

Listen to Encore Performances of the Las Vegas Philharmonic performances aired on Classical 89.7 summer of 2020.

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Best Music Of 2020

2020 Was The Year Of *Trying* To Chill

Dec 11, 2020
The musicians who massaged our temples for us this year took more than one approach — some immersive soundscapes, some acoustic lullabies, at least one wild pop-punk experiment.
Discover Music
Classical
Obituaries
Pianist Harold Budd, seen here during a portrait session in 2011, died after contracting COVID-19.

Harold Budd's Music Was Heaven On Earth

Dec 10, 2020
The ambient composer and Brian Eno collaborator died this week at the age of 84 from complications brought on by COVID-19.
Classical
Deceptive Cadence
Composer John Luther Adams wrote his memoir, <em>Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska</em>, based on the decades he spent living and working in the Arctic.

Composer John Luther Adams On The Arctic Sounds That Shaped His Work

Dec 10, 2020
The Pulitzer winner has released his first memoir, Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska. It's a personal account of Adams' formative decades making art in the Artic.
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Music News
Four nights onstage in Berlin in 2018 are the subject of Nils Frahm's new concert film and soundtrack album, <em>Tripping With Nils Frahm</em>.

'Tripping With Nils Frahm:' Four Sweaty Berlin Nights Captured Onscreen

Dec 04, 2020
The new concert film, shot in 2018, shows one of the stars of the electronic and indie classical worlds in his element: a homebrewed nest of traditional and modern instruments working together.

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