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April 2003

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• Bangers and Mash April 30, 2003

  Interested in building your very own classical music library, but you don't know where to begin? Let Fred Plotkin do the work for you. On this installment of Soundcheck, Mr. Plotkin, ... (episode)

• Music of the Mediterranean April 29, 2003

  On this edition of Soundcheck, take a sonic tour of the Mediterranean, past and present. We begin with female ensemble Divahn, who graces us with a performance of Sephardic and Middle... (episode)

• Score! April 28, 2003

  Godfrey Reggio’s "Qatsi" film trilogy explores the destructive impact of the modern world on the environment through a "kaleidoscope of wordless images." Wordless, yes, but definitely... (episode)

• Strumming Strings in Time for Spring April 25, 2003

  Director Jonathan Miller is taking on Mozart's lusty tale of love and despair this season at BAM. He talks about his production of Cosi Fan Tutti whose "penetrating psychological real... (episode)

• Composing Glorious Music April 24, 2003

  Transient Glory is an extraordinary concert with a mission: to show the world audiences, composers, and performers that the ephemeral sound of a children's chorus is a glorious instru... (episode)

• Centuries-Old German Pop! April 23, 2003

  What's German music without Bach, Beethoven or Brahms? Find out today on Soundcheck. The Eastern German music ensemble, the Thuringer Salonquintette, who plays the music of 19th-centu... (episode)

• Listening to the Living Earth April 22, 2003

  Tune in for music in celebration of the earth on Soundcheck. The Alaska-based composer John Luther Adams has been composing works that resound with the landscape in which he lives. He... (episode)

• Sonic Smorgasbord April 21, 2003

  Need yet another reason to go down to St. Ann's Warehouse? Now they've got puppets! In 1983, in a ground-breaking collaboration with the Brooklyn Opera Society, Arts at St. Ann’s stag... (episode)

• From the Sacred to the Soulful April 17, 2003

  All kinds of soul in the studio today. We recorded pianist Geri Allen at our birthday party at Tonic last week. She talks a bit about the influence of the African American spiritual t... (episode)

• Things trumpeted, and a Trumpter April 16, 2003

  New York Times music writer James Oestreich talks with host John Schaefer about the much anticipated new EMI cycle of Beethoven Symphonies with Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmoni... (episode)