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Music

The perils of Penelope, Lady Rich

Minnesota native and internationnally accalimed early music singer Emily Van Evera has released a new CD focusing on Lady Penelope Rich, the tragic muse of the Elizabethan court.

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Painting with sound

What do you do if one day you realize the job you've loved all your life isn't cutting it anymore? Here's the story of a man who changed his art, and how the art changed the man.

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Osmo Vanska returns to the clarinet

After several years away from the clarinet, Minnesota Orchestra Music Director Osmo Vanska makes his Orchestra Hall debut on the instrument in a Sommerfest chamber music performance.

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A new home for music in Minneapolis

The MacPhail Center for Music is building a new home in Minneapolis. MacPhail has unveiled the design for an expanded music center in the Mill District, in what's becoming a new cultural corridor. But MacPhail plans building a new future while breaking down some old walls.

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"Sounds of Blackness" prepares for Juneteenth Festival

Minnesota's own Grammy award winning group "Sounds of Blackness" will be performing this weekend for the annual Juneteenth Festival in Minneapolis' Theodore Wirth Park. Musical director Gary Hines talks about the musical group and their involvement with the event.

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Music under the radar

For some people, underground music means anything that's not played on the radio. For others, the definition goes deeper. Now some of the most subterranean music in the Twin Cities will surface at Heliotrope, a two-day music festival in Minneapolis.

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Music box fans seek a new generation

When you put a coin into a machine from the 1800s, you hear the same tune somebody else heard over a 100 years ago. Not a reproduction, but the exact music from the exact instrument. A group of local collectors hope a new film about mechanical music boxes will attract more enthusiasts into the fold.

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The city of string instruments

If you want to learn how to make a guitar, or repair a violin, head to Red Wing. The city is home to the nation's most comprehensive program focused on building string instruments. Over the years, students from as far away as Mozambique and Thailand have flocked here to learn the art of instrument-making.

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Vanska signs new contract with the Minnesota Orchestra

Osmo Vanska will stay at the Minnesota Orchestra through at least 2011. The Finnish conductor signed a new four year contract today. Orchestra President Tony Woodcock told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr he's very pleased.
by Euan Kerr

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