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Recent Articles by Lani Willis
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Violinist
Baiba Skride brings extraordinary skills—and a multimillion-dollar violin—to her
Minnesota Orchestra debut.
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The highly anticipated second concert of the über-group Accordo features music from the 1920s.
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Will the SPCO be able to hold its own when up against four top-notch international chamber orchestras? The outcome not withstanding, our community still wins.
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The National Lutheran Choir’s Christmas concert, Love Incarnate, seeks to trigger memories and vision with its unabashedly spiritual message.
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Unable to find a label interested in gambling on an unknown pianist playing a
work defined by Glenn Gould’s iconic 1955 recording, Simone Dinnerstein recorded Goldberg Variations herself in
2005. Later that
year, she made her Carnegie Hall debut.
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Local lute legend Phil Rukavina describes the essence of this sweetly delicate, intricate music.
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Sharon Isbin, the first lady of frets, returns to her hometown to open the
Minnesota
Orchestra season with the most beloved concerto for
guitar—Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.
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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, currently enjoying record
audience numbers, has both a
present and a past to celebrate.
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Northfield's David Kjar, a world-class trumpeter, plays with the Lyra Baroque Orchestra. Catch his act on December 22 at the Olivet Congregational Church in St. Paul.
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The Russian Patriarchate Choir of Moscow sings once-banned music at the Basilica of Saint Mary.
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