The winding of a river, an old tale made new, and a Zombieland crush. A typical September here on the Instant Replay.

GBH Music and Boston Lyric Opera presented MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens.
CRB Blog
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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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Centuries before there was an "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" on September 19, composers already were!
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Following its world premiere in 2021, a nearly forgotten work by Leonard Bernstein has now been released on a commercial recording, along with an additional movement of the piece discovered in 2022 and rarely heard music by Bernstein’s mentor, Aaron Copland.
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It's officially a month to celebrate the music you love!

GBH Music presents a unique musical adventure where Celtic meets classical, on demand!
From NPR Music
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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.
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In their new book On Minimalism, musicologists William Robin and Kerry O'Brien capture the lesser-known stories of the musical movement and its development, era by era.
El Puerto Rico
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Gabriel Bouche Caro contemplates the implications of Puerto Rico's "neither here nor there" political status, and what options its people have for the future.
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The poetry of Julia de Burgos inspired Tony Solitro's joyous song without words
On Demand
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On The Bach Hour, the Principal Flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic is joined by his colleagues for one of Bach’s most virtuosic creations for his instrument.
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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, 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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