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The Twin Cities vocal ensemble Cantus begins its new season this weekend, featuring works from its 10th recording, "While You Are Alive." The group gave MPR classical music host Steve Staruch a preview.


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Conductors Riccardo Muti and Andre Previn explain themselves in recent (separate) interviews. Muti, the music-director-designate of the Chicago Symphony, explains that he's not a dictator, just misunderstood, in this article. In a more in-depth interview, Andre Previn shows that at...... (more)

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Going for Baroque
A selective survey of some recently issued recordings devoted to organ music from the period 1600-1750, everything from Boyvin to Casini (plus Bach, Handel and Buxtehude, too!)

Saint Paul Sunday (September 28)
Anthony McGill, clarinet; Natalie Zhu, piano

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Joshua Bell
Violinist Joshua Bell has been playing Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" in public for several years, honing his own sense of the drama, and the fun, of these beloved pieces. Now, he's bringing his performances out on disc for the first time.
James Pugh: X-Over Trombone
A new disc lets the trombone sing out in three concertos by American composers, all of them showing the influences of popular styles -- jazz, swing, and world music.
Black Mary
Many of the Twin Cities theaters, dance companies and music groups are quietly facing a leadership crisis.

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George Rabasa
Minneapolis author George Rabasa's new novel, "The Wonder Singer," explores love, opera and the agony of writing.
Tyrone and Ralph
This weekend the History Theatre in St. Paul will delve into one of the great tempestuous relationships of Minnesota theater history. "Tyrone and Ralph" is about the struggle in the early 1960s between architect Ralph Rapson and Sir Tyrone Guthrie, as they built the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Chuck Klosterman
Journalist Chuck Klosterman reaches back to his experience as a music critic and his Midwestern roots to pen his first novel.
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