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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 L.A. musicians played for thousands and saw Venezuela's "El Sistema" music education up close.
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Her E minor Symphony was the first work by a black woman played by a major American orchestra.
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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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Pope Benedict XVI plans to canonize 12th-century composer, mystic, doctor and Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen next year.
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An electric performer, Carter was an irrepressible and incomparable practitioner of the jazz vocal tradition. For nearly 50 years, the intense vocalist blazed her own trail in jazz, powered by her passionate, intense singing.