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Arts & Life
10:25 am
Mon June 17, 2013

An Inconvenient Tune

Credit Pablo Helguera for NPR

Originally published on Fri June 14, 2013 11:50 am

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Pablo Helguera is a New York-based artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and performance. His new book is Helguera's Artunes. You can see more of his work at Artworld Salon and on his own site.

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Arts & Life
10:24 am
Mon June 17, 2013

NO BS! Brass Band: Tiny Desk Concert

Credit NPR

Originally published on Sat June 15, 2013 4:26 am

Just southeast of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, Va., lies a compact neighborhood called Oregon Hill. Historically, it's been a (white) working-class part of town, affordable for students and various bohemian types. Recording engineer Lance Koehler was drawn to the place when he moved to Richmond from New Orleans; it's where he eventually found a two-story garage and converted it into his own recording studio and home. It didn't take him long to start doing business across the Richmond music map: Koehler is good at his job, and he's affordable.

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Arts & Life
9:43 am
Fri June 7, 2013

John Rutter and Cambridge Singers

Classical music
10:14 am
Mon June 3, 2013

Renaud Capucon plays Beethoven

Playlist

March 18, 2013

9:05 AM
Concerto Grosso in B-flat, op. 6, no. 7
Artist :
Album : Concerti Grossi, op. 3 & op. 6
Composer : G. F. Handel
Catalog : 475 8673
Conductor : Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra : Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Label : Decca
9:21 AM
Sonata no. 9 in F
Artist :
Album : Harp Sonatas
Composer : Giovanni Francesco Giuliani
Catalog : 94305
Instrument : Lisetta Rossi, harp
Label : Brilliant
9:29 AM
Sonata no. 4 in A minor
Artist :
Album : Cello Sonatas
Composer : Francesco Maria Zuccari
Catalog : 94306
Orchestra : Musica Perduta
Instrument : Renato Crisculo, cello
Label : Brilliant
9:42 AM
Concerto in E, op. 9, no. 4
Artist :
Album : La Cetra, op. 9
Composer : Antonio Vivaldi
Catalog : 421 366-2
Conductor : Christopher Hogwood
Orchestra : The Academy of Ancient Music
Instrument : Simon Standage, violin
Label : L'oiseau Lyre
9:54 AM
Piano Lullaby
Artist :
Album : Symphony no. 1
Composer : Buckley Mills
Catalog : PHX 84061
Instrument : Steve Kummer, piano
Label : BYM Music
10:01 AM
Symphony no. 28 in A
Artist :
Album : Symphonies nos. 27, 28 & 31
Composer : F. J. Haydn
Catalog : 8.554405
Conductor : Bela Drahos
Orchestra : Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia
Label : Naxos
10:19 AM
Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581
Artist :
Album : The Mozart Album
Composer : W. A .Mozart
Catalog : NI 6116
Orchestra : ConTempo String Quartet
Instrument : Emma Johnson, basset clarinet
Label : Nimbus
10:52 AM
Ich lach’l (I Laugh)--waltz
Artist :
Album : Carl Michael Ziehrer, vol. 3
Composer : Carl Michael Ziehrer
Catalog : 8.225172
Conductor : Christian Pollack
Orchestra : Razumovsky Sinfonia
Label : Marco Polo
11:00 AM
Symphony no. 3 in A minor
Artist :
Album : Borodin Edition
Composer : A. Borodin/completed by Alexander Glazunov
Catalog : 94410/2
Conductor : Mark Ermler
Orchestra : Symphonic Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Label : Brilliant
11:21 AM
Violin Sonata no. 1, op. 75
Artist :
Album : French Violin Sonatas
Composer : C. Saint-Saens
Catalog : 09026-61386-2
Instrument : Kyoko Takezawa, violin/Rohan de Silva, piano
Label : RCA
11:44 AM
L’Arlesienne Suite no. 1
Artist :
Album : Suites from Carmen & L'Arlesienne
Composer : Georges Bizet
Catalog : CHAN 7107
Conductor : Yan Pascal Tortelier
Orchestra : Ulster Orchestra
Label : Chandos