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Music

Open Ears: Irv Williams

Irv Williams, 86, has been a fixture in the Twin Cities jazz scene for more than 50 years. His favorite classical piece comes from a composer known in jazz circles for his jazz sensibilities.

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Opera by the ore docks?

You can bring opera to Duluth, but will anyone be listening?

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The Waltz King and the Land of Giants

When Johann Strauss, Jr. came to America in 1872, concert promoters in Boston went all out. They built a great wooden hall which held an audience of 100,000, not to mention an additional 20,000 singers and musicians. Strauss conducted his own music, communicating with the multitudes through 100 assistant conductors. A sincere expression of our love of Strauss' music (or celebrity?), or a megalomaniacal lust for spectacle? Strauss was pretty sure he knew. Bill Morelock looks at the American sojourn of a reluctant Waltz King.

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The perils of Penelope, Lady Rich

Minnesota native and internationnally accalimed early music singer Emily Van Evera has released a new CD focusing on Lady Penelope Rich, the tragic muse of the Elizabethan court.

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Painting with sound

What do you do if one day you realize the job you've loved all your life isn't cutting it anymore? Here's the story of a man who changed his art, and how the art changed the man.

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Osmo Vanska returns to the clarinet

After several years away from the clarinet, Minnesota Orchestra Music Director Osmo Vanska makes his Orchestra Hall debut on the instrument in a Sommerfest chamber music performance.

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A new home for music in Minneapolis

The MacPhail Center for Music is building a new home in Minneapolis. MacPhail has unveiled the design for an expanded music center in the Mill District, in what's becoming a new cultural corridor. But MacPhail plans building a new future while breaking down some old walls.

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"Sounds of Blackness" prepares for Juneteenth Festival

Minnesota's own Grammy award winning group "Sounds of Blackness" will be performing this weekend for the annual Juneteenth Festival in Minneapolis' Theodore Wirth Park. Musical director Gary Hines talks about the musical group and their involvement with the event.

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Music under the radar

For some people, underground music means anything that's not played on the radio. For others, the definition goes deeper. Now some of the most subterranean music in the Twin Cities will surface at Heliotrope, a two-day music festival in Minneapolis.

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Edvard Grieg: absolute quiet and a taste of codfish

Classical music host Bill Morelock remembers composer Edvard Grieg on his 162nd birthday.

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