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Music

New Classical Tracks: Music for crickets

Classical host Julie Amacher reviews a new recording of concertos and suites by composer Georg Philip Telemann. Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Jeannette Sorrell, brings Telemann's light-hearted nature to the surface with the help of medieval knights, a harlequin, and a family of crickets.

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"Bootlegs" CD a kick for First Avenue fans

First Avenue in Minneapolis has long been viewed as the epicenter of the Twin Cities music scene and a nationally known music destination. To celebrate its 35th anniversary the nightclub has released a compilation of bootleg recordings.

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Singing in the shadow of AIDS

In the developed world, much has changed in those 18 years since AIDS was discovered. Large numbers of HIV-positive people are able to keep the disease in check for years using a cocktail of drugs. In the developing world, those treatments are hard to come by. But journalist Jonah Eller-Isaacs discovered that people in sub-Saharan Africa are using an unlikely tool to fight the dread disease -- music.

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New classical tracks: Growing up with Mozart

After almost 30 years as one of the top-ranking violin virtuosos of our time, you might think Anne-Sophie Mutter has done it all. Her new recording marks the beginning of a project she's dreamed about since she was 6 years old.

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Singing in the shadow of AIDS

In 2004, journalist Jonah Eller-Isaacs spent six months traveling alone through sub-Saharan Africa. While living with local families and working with newfound friends, he recorded music of a surprising nature. He found that residents were using music as an effective tool in fighting HIV and AIDS.

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Tanzania - Hip Hop Warriors

The nation of Tanzania dwarfs Malawi, its southern neighbor. With more than 125 ethnic groups, Tanzania is a country of dramatic extremes, from noisy, crowded cities like the capital of Dar es Salaam to the serene quiet of some of the world's best-known wildlife parks. Tanzania is also suffering under the burden of AIDS.

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Uganda - A National Transformation

In the early 1990s, Uganda was ravaged by the AIDS epidemic. In some regions, infection rates were as high as 30 percent. But the country has made a spectacular recovery.

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Kenya - Songs of Forgotten Children

In our journey through the musical world that surrounds the HIV pandemic, we continue north through Africa to the enormous, poverty-stricken metropolis of Nairobi, Kenya.

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Malawi - An impoverished nation

Malawi is a nation in southeast Africa that consistently ranks as one of the world's five poorest. The HIV/AIDS pandemic darkens this countryside of mango, bluegum and acacia trees. You see the impact of the virus everywhere, from the thousands of orphaned children, to the untended fields of corn withering under the equatorial sun.

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New classical tracks: Spanish Serenade

Spain has a lengthy reputation for luring artists and musicians to its magical land. In a matter of minutes, classical host Julie Amacher found herself cast under its spell as she listened to "Violonchelo Espanol" by cellist Yuli Turovsky and his group, I Musici de Montreal.

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