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Issue July 2004

One Swell Party

Cole Porter's real secret was not the gay life a new film biography will highlight. It was how he made his songs… More »

Issue April 2003

Memory Spaces

John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls finds redemption in September 11, and should bring contemporary classical music to a new audience… More »

Issue October 2002

Out of Our Dreams

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and Carousel, a model comedy and a model tragedy, created a new theatrical genre… More »

Issue April 2002

Conducting: A Backwoods Guide

In the intense quiet of a Maine camp aspiring conductors work on bossiness, passivity, and how to move to the music… More »

Issue July 2001

In Glass's House

More a classicist than an avant-gardist, Philip Glass embraces rock music without imitating it… More »

The Tradition of the Oldie

The NPR 100 shows for better or worse what Americans think is their classical music… More »

Who Was That Masked Composer?

In political life as in his music, Aaron Copland decorously hid his emotions… More »

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