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Sat October 27, 2012

Lianne La Havas: The Voice Of What's To Come

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Lianne La Havas performs at WFUV's studios in New York City.
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Originally published on Mon November 5, 2012 8:24 am

The music of 23-year-old singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas expresses a thoughtful curiosity that brims with hope and wonder about the world. She recently stopped by WFUV to talk about her debut album — titled Is Your Love Big Enough? — and perform the title track in studio.

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All Songs Considered
5:30 am
Sat October 27, 2012

Dear Dad: I'm Sorry I Blew Out Your Nice Stereo Speakers

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I think we can all agree that he deserves at least a little bit of the blame: Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer on stage with his Moog synthesizer.
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Originally published on Sat October 27, 2012 12:36 pm

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Music Interviews
1:03 am
Sat October 27, 2012

At 93, Pete Seeger Keeps The Fire Burning Low

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Pete Seeger released two albums this year: Pete Remembers Woody (a Woody Guthrie tribute) and A More Perfect Union, a collaboration with guitarist Lorre Wyatt.
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Seeger shows off his banjo, inscribed with the message, "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender."
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Seeger and Wyatt's collaborative album, A More Perfect Union.
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Originally published on Tue November 6, 2012 1:13 pm

As he often does when the weather's decent, Pete Seeger recently played a free show outdoors in Beacon, N.Y. A few dozen people packed around the stage that held Seeger, his ever-present banjo and a small band; a group of kids in red T-shirts clustered down in front, singing along. The emcee for the afternoon was Susan Wright, the music teacher at Beacon Elementary School, where Seeger visits regularly.

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The Record
3:20 pm
Fri October 26, 2012

'Nashville' Duets: Voices In Harmony And Conflict

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Nashville veteran Deacon (Charles Esten) and upstart country-pop star Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) record a duet in a scene from ABC's Nashville.
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Originally published on Mon November 5, 2012 10:07 am

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Classics in Concert
2:58 pm
Fri October 26, 2012

Belcea Quartet Takes Beethoven To Carnegie Hall: Live Nov. 7, 8 p.m. ET

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The players in the Belcea Quartet played a series of late Beethoven string quartets at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall.
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The Belcea Quartet's violinists Corina Belcea and Axel Schacher, walk onstage just before playing Beethoven's String Quartet in E flat, Op. 127.
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Beethoven had left the string quartet behind for a dozen years before writing his Op. 127 quartet. He said he had "new kind of part-writing" where all instruments have independent lines while blending together.
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Intimate lighting for intimate music. Just a spotlight on the Belcea Quartet is appropriate for Beethoven's late quartets, which are among his most personal, enigmatic and powerfully forward-thinking pieces.
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The Belcea Quartet — violinists Corina Belcea (left) and Axel Schacher, cellist Antoine Lederlin and violist Krzysztof Chorzelski (far right) — plays two of Beethoven's late string quartets at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, Nov. 7, 2012. It was the first concert back in the building after Hurricane Sandy forced Carnegie to close for several days.
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The Belcea Quartet at Zankel Hall. They were scheduled for three nights of concerts, but Hurricane Sandy got in the way of one performance. Instead the quartet played a for hurricane victims in a shelter in Brooklyn.
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The Belcea Quartet prepares to leaves the stage. They also played Beethoven's enigmatic String Quartet in B flat, Op. 130 at this Zankel Hall performance.
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Originally published on Tue November 13, 2012 3:30 pm

There comes a time in the life of most string quartets when, for better or worse, Beethoven must be confronted. For the acclaimed Belcea Quartet (named after its first violinist Corina Belcea), that time is now. The London-based group, founded at the Royal College of Music in 1994, is thoroughly steeped in Beethoven's 16 string quartets — pieces written throughout the early, middle and late stages of his career in an epic sweep of compositional mastery and imagination.

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