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Young musicians from a Paraguayan slum have toured the world with instruments made of garbage. They've played with Stevie Wonder and for the Pope. Now they're in a documentary.
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Derek Gripper's exploration of West African kora music has produced two acclaimed albums — and, he says, a better understanding of the classical music he played as a kid.
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Follow the young South African soprano's fairytale rise to fame in a travelogue of classic arias and scenes by Rossini, Delibes and Bellini.
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UIS ethnomusicologist Yona Stamatis speaks with Maestro Alastair Willis and featured musicians Wu Tong and Mike Block about this weekend's Illinois…
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From Mozart to Mahler, a marvelous merging of symphony and song with The Marriage of Figaro Overture, arias from Don Giovanni and La Clemenza di Tito, and…
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A preview of this weekend's Illinois Symphony Orchestra concert - "Sensational Strings" - featuring music by Mozart, Kernis, and Dvorak. Yona Stamatis…
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UIS Ethnomusicologist Yona Stamatis brings us a preview of this weekend's "Holiday Pops in the Heartland" concert, featuring festive music and traditional…
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FREE Performance & DiscussionThursday, October 9, 2014, NoonSuggs Performance StudioJoin UIS Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Yona Stamatis in an…
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From a new concerto by Béla Fleck to established concertos by Béla Bartok, NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and host Jacki Lyden spin a wide variety of new classical recordings.
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A bright-eyed child transforms an elegiac prayer in a new video from New York Polyphony and director Mark DeChiazza, featuring incandescent music by the late English composer Richard Rodney Bennett.