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Vijay Gupta was a 19-year-old violin prodigy when he joined the LA Philharmonic. Now he runs Street Symphony, an organization bringing music to clinics, jails and homeless shelters on Skid Row.
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The 1990 film of Oliver Sacks' “Awakenings” portrayed Sacks as a heterosexual man with a female love interest.
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Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist hearings in 1954 inspired Leonard Bernstein's 1956 comic opera "Candide."
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Six finalists competed in the competition in Fort Worth, Texas, including two from Russia and one from Ukraine. An 18-year-old South Korean was the youngest to win in the contest's 60-year history.
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A thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the first time.
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A new project conceived by Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman recasts baroque music that by turns demonizes and exoticizes Arabs and Muslims.
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Georgetown University owes its survival to slavery. A new album by Carlos Simon, an assistant professor at the school, unflinchingly confronts that legacy.
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The musicians have been on strike since last September, and both sides were deadlocked in their talks over a variety of issues, including salaries.
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This Juneteenth, pianist Lara Downes remembers the freedom that has been hard fought and hard won.
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Youth Orchestras of San Antonio return to their semi-annual performance tour tradition. They're playing in NYC, Boston and Philadelphia.