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Branson's best season: come fall in the Missouri Ozarks, the nation's music show capital takes on a special glow
UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN TO Branson, you've probably never heard of Shoji Tabuchi, a master fiddler from Japan who sports spangly jackets and a n]op of black ......(Continue Reading) CDs of the year
Classical Peter Conrad Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) is a revelation. Familiar songs are made new in orchestrations by composers ......(Continue Reading)The land of anthrax and H-bombs: it came into being when Stalin decreed it and the Soviets used it for testing weapons of mass destruction. But today,
It was on New Year's Day, standing on a snowy mountain top overlooking Almaty; that I understood something about what makes Kazakhstantick. Two teenage ......(Continue Reading)The Eastern Catholic Churches in America
IF YOU have ever driven through the 'Rust Belt' in the northeastern and north-central United States, that territory dominated by steel mills and coal ......(Continue Reading)Face the music: why are we such a musical species —and does it matter - theoretical origins of musical ability and appreciation in humans
"In our village there was a man who had a daughter, and a guy wanted to marry her," reminisces Dadie Aime Loh, from southwestern Ivory Coast. The suitor ......(Continue Reading)
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