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Renée Fleming Goes Pop

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This weekend, Rene Fleming will release her 29th album. But it isn’t a new recording of a Romantic opera or a set of lieder: America’s favorite soprano has gone pop. Dark Hope features eleven covers, including songs by the Arcade Fire and Jefferson Airplane. And Fleming shows us new colors in her voice as she […]

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Carnival celebrations are underway in Haiti, with a surprise band from Canada

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Bell Orchestre

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Bell Orchestre

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A couple of years ago, a group of Canadian indie-rockers (some play in Arcade Fire) decided to write and play their own chamber music. Kurt talks with violinist Sarah Neufeld and bassist Richard Reed-Parry, and they perform live in the studio.

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