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Dispatches from Cape Town: Learning new music in a soccer stadium

Dispatches from Cape Town: Learning new music in a soccer stadium

The Minnesota Orchestra Brass Quintet brought -- and found -- very different genres of music at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town Thursday.
by Euan Kerr

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Sammy Brue performs 7th Street Entry Tonight

Sammy Brue performs tonight at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. His album "I Am Nice" was released two years ago when he was just 15 years old.
by Cathy Wurzer

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'A very sacred space': Minn. Orchestra musicians visit Mandela's Robben Island cell

'A very sacred space': Minn. Orchestra musicians visit Mandela's Robben Island cell

The Minnesota Orchestra began its two-week, five-city tour of South Africa Wednesday, as part of a yearlong celebration of the centennial of Nelson Mandela's birth. Nearly a third of the orchestra's musicians visited the prison where the country's apartheid government imprisoned Mandela for 18 years.
by Euan Kerr

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Beyonce and Jay-Z to play at US Bank Stadium

Beyoncé and Jay-Z will be performing tonight at U-S Bank Stadium in Minneapolis as part of their "On the Run II" tour.
by Cathy Wurzer

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How the Rolling Stones embraced disco

"Miss You" by the Rolling Stones was No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart 40 years Tuesday.
by MPR News Staff

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Minnesota Orchestra hopes voices rise, walls fall on South Africa tour

Minnesota Orchestra hopes voices rise, walls fall on South Africa tour

Classical music was once viewed as a whites-only pursuit in South Africa's apartheid system. Minnesota Orchestra leaders hope concerts over the next two weeks, including one in Soweto, can help bury those beliefs.
by Euan Kerr

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Jack White to play at the Minneapolis Armory

When Jack White performs Monday night at the Minneapolis Armory, fans will likely be surprised by what they hear. White does not use a set list. Instead, he takes his cues from the crowd to determine which songs to play and how to play them.
by MPR News Staff

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Brother Ali headlines at Hazelfest

The sixth annual Hazelfest takes place on Saturday at Hazelden in Center City, Minnesota.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Marin Alsop's childhood idol: Leonard Bernstein

Marin Alsop's childhood idol: Leonard Bernstein

As a kid, Marin Alsop had two posters on the wall of her bedroom: The Beatles and Leonard Bernstein. She was so nervous to meet Bernstein as a young adult that she almost backed out, but she found out he was even greater in person that she could have imagined. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director shares her memories of Bernstein.

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