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Living legends pay tribute to the music and spirit of Delta Blues icon Robert Johnson.
March 2011
by Tad Simons
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The New Congress combats the creeping sanitization and corporatization of contemporary pop music by blending R & B, hip-hop, jazz, and rock that it calls “urban soul.”
November 2009
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Former White Iron Band member Nicholas "The Feelin" Mrozinski's new CD, Together We're Stronger, features artists from more than 40 different Twin Cities bands.
June 2009
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Jazz guitarist Cory Wong talks about his musical beginnings, influences, and his buzz-worthy new CD, Even, Uneven.
May 2009
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Ten Thousand Things theater goes public with a new adaptation of Crime and
Punishment.
May 2009
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The Walker Art Center’s The Quick and the
Dead seeks to revive the moribund state of conceptual art.
May 2009
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Jazz pianist Jason Moran and his ensemble recreate Thelonious
Monk’s legendary 1959 Town Hall concert.
May 2009
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Mayda Miller talks about her music, what influences her, and her work with superproducer Michael Bland.
April 2009
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Flutist and composer Julie Johnson talks about her first CD release, her musical influences, and a project involving songs sung by Minnesota loggers and miners. April 3, MacPhail Center for Music.
March 2009
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Chapman stick player Japhlet Bire Attias talks about his unusual instrument and his self-titled debut album.
February 2009
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Singer/songwriter Aby Wolf speaks talks about the inspiration for her music, her day job waiting tables, and more.
January 2009
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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.
January 2009
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Musician Jenny Dalton talks about starting out with toy-store instruments and moving up to the real thing, producing her own album, and more.
Dec. 27. Kitty Cat Club
December 2008
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The National Lutheran Choir’s Christmas concert, Love Incarnate, seeks to trigger memories and vision with its unabashedly spiritual message.
December 2008
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Though at first it may not seem like opera-worthy material, Gertrude Stein’s tale of a mythical Midwest family over three generations debuts this month with Anthony Gatto at the helm.
December 2008
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Craig Finn of The Hold Steady explains his thoughts behind Stay Positive and how he manages to keep up his hipster lifestyle.
November 2008
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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.
November 2008
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James Robinson, whose production of Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio
comes to the Minnesota Opera in November, discusses how he lets the music direct his directing.
November 2008
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Peter Lansky (AKA SovietPanda) rocks First Avenue every Saturday night with his sets of techno-punk, house, classical, and even disco-era tunes.
November 2008
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Maria Schneider believes that music has to become more personal, which is why she has taken down the barriers and composed a new song cycle for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
October 2008
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Local lute legend Phil Rukavina describes the essence of this sweetly delicate, intricate music.
October 2008
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