Laura Carlo
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As warm summer turns to cooler autumn, we backyard gardeners start closing out the little patches that gave us purpose – and sore backs – throughout the growing season. There’s music for that!
Francisco Anzola
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GBH Music and Boston Lyric Opera presented MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens.
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Meet Founding Father Francis Hopkinson, America's First Composer! (Maybe!) -
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of good music must be in want of a book.
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The winding of a river, an old tale made new, and a Zombieland crush. A typical September here on the Instant Replay.
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Centuries before there was an "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" on September 19, composers already were!
GBH Music presents a unique musical adventure where Celtic meets classical, on demand!
From NPR Music
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The latest children's book from Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton and illustrator Elly McKay is about the power of nature and music. They discussed their creative process in an interview with NPR.
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Absent from the recording studio for more than a decade, the restless musician has commissioned six composers for his new album.
El Puerto Rico
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Banff Centre for Arts and CreativityGabriel Bouche Caro contemplates the implications of Puerto Rico's "neither here nor there" political status, and what options its people have for the future. -
Tony SolitroThe poetry of Julia de Burgos inspired Tony Solitro's joyous song without words
On Demand
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On The Bach Hour, the composer's Cantata No. 19, for St. Michael and All Angels, expresses a terrifying, visceral quality of battle, and a hope for protection and safety.
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On WCRB In Concert with Boston Lyric Opera, a Pulitzer-prize-winning work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, telling the stirring true story of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim man enslaved in America.
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Available on demand: On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois is the soloist in Hummel's venerable Clarinet Quartet and Pierre Jalbert's recent meditation on the sacred and the secular, "Street Antiphons," in a program that also includes Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 2.
The Bach Hour
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On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in music that grapples with the challenges of everyday life, and Pieter-Jan Belder leads the exuberant Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.
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