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With Passover beginning, Jews around the world prepared to commemorate this major holiday with food, prayers and songs. We're on the hunt for music that helps spool out stories of enslavement and liberation.
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Both newly 30, Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan reflect on the past and relish the present on their upcoming release, The Ash & Clay.
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The pianist and composer/arranger was a prime mover in the international musical exchange that was Havana in the middle of the 20th Century. Late in his career, he enjoyed a new wave of fame as his accomplishments came to light anew. The father of Chucho Valdés, he was 94.
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Hear two tracks from the roots-rock musician's upcoming album, Rabbit Runs A Destiny.
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If you fell in love with oranges, would you scour the world to find them? Prokofiev's absurdist, citrus-scented opera features zany plot lines, curious characters and one little march that made it big.
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The Canadian singer-songwriter plays a few political tunes during his 13th appearance on Mountain Stage.
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The Japanese pianist's latest album begins with a tribute to a sound she's never liked: the chime of an alarm clock.
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Trumpeter, flugelhorn player and vocalist Stacy Rowles was a fixture on the L.A. jazz scene, and played regularly in all-female jazz groups the Jazzbirds and Maiden Voyage. This program from 2001 is presented as a tribute to Rowles, who died in 2009.
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The U.K. trio combines traditional sounds with circus and vaudeville elements. For this show, its members bring a theremin — one of the only times such an instrument has been used on Mountain Stage.
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A veteran of the New England folk scene, Williams emerged nationally in the mid-1990s, winning fans with her idiosyncratic songwriting, acerbic wit and lovely soprano voice.