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Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire.
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Stephen Sondheim has died at 91. Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes looks back on her favorite Sondheim tunes.
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The Met critiques critics, Czechs conquer concerts and Zinman stays up late: all the news that's fit to link.
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Piano legend Leon Fleisher plays for the Supreme Court today, while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals her list of favorite recordings.
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A classy train ride in Copenhagen, a ruckus in London and a broken Strad in Madrid: all the news that's fit to link.
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Hear a brilliant new solo recording of finger-twisting music from a singular pianist who reaches for infinity — and beyond.
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NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and host Guy Raz spin an eclectic mix of new classical releases.
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In a historic nerve center for jazz where the current club scene has all but collapsed, a 28-year-old trombone player created the Center City Jazz Festival. That makes last Saturday possibly the most important in Philly jazz in years.
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A transposed tenor on pop, an inspiring orchestra on tour and the iPad on music stands: all the classical music news that's fit to link.
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Hear an excerpt from a fabulous debut recording by a 21-year-old pianist who's poised to take the world by storm with his beguiling mix of tenderness and muscularity.
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Big prizes for composers, operatic intrigue in New York and a former MP takes to the stage in London: all the news that's fit to link.
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The contradictions between art and business are set into relief by the U.S. income tax code.