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Barenboim's Beethoven: A Soloist And Conductor In Complete Agreement

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Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim captured in a 2006 photo from Berlin.

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Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 7:15 pm

Conductor, pianist and peace advocate Daniel Barenboim first recorded all five of Beethoven's piano concertos in 1967. Barenboim, a brash and fantastically smart 24-year-old, was paired with an elder statesman, conductor Otto Klemperer. There was real magic in that collaboration, yielding recordings that still set a benchmark.

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Electronic Music Legend Added To Moogfest 2012

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Morton Subotnick performing Silver Apples of the Moon in 2011

By Bob Boilen

Originally published on Wed October 17, 2012 10:00 am

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Tue August 28, 2012

Diamond Rugs On World Cafe

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Diamond Rugs.

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Muddying the waters separating indie rock, country and Southern blues, Diamond Rugs formed in Nashville as an all-star music collective assembled by John McCauley of Deer Tick.

12:51 pm

Tue August 28, 2012

Drinking, Dancing, Dolly Parton: Photos Of The '70s Country Music Scene

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Last Call, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nashville, Tenn., 1974

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Last Call, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nashville, Tenn., 1974

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Ralph Stanley at Home, Coeburn, Va., 1974. "As bluegrass heroes go, Ralph Stanley is right up there with Bill Monroe. He began performing with brother Carter as the Stanley Brothers in 1946, and their old-time mountain sound has been hugely influential."

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Dolly Parton, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1972. "Dolly Parton's first hit was 'Dumb Blonde' in 1967, but she soon proved she was anything but."

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Bluegrass Music Fan Frank Brown, Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, Gettysburg, Pa., 1974

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Curly Ray Cline at Home, Rock House, Ky., 1974. "Curly Ray Cline ... fiddled for Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys from 1966 to 1993. His fiddling style was simple and precise, a perfect match for the Stanley old-time sound."

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Charlie Monroe, Take It Easy Ranch, Callaway, Md., 1973. "Charlie Monroe worked with younger brother Bill as the Monroe Brothers before splitting up in 1938. Bill went on to stardom at the Grand Ole Opry, while Charlie worked smaller venues."

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Minnie Pearl and Pee Wee King, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tenn., 1973. "Minnie Pearl was the pre-eminent country comedian of her day. With a price tag hanging from her hat, she regaled her fans with tales from Grinder's Switch, a fictional town that influenced Garrison Keillor and his Lake Wobegon."

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DeFord Bailey, Grand Ole Opry House, Opryland, Nashville, Tenn., 1974. "A member of the original Grand Ole Opry cast, DeFord Bailey was discovered in 1926 playing harmonica while operating an elevator. He was fired from the show in 1941 due to changing musical tastes or racism, depending on who's telling the story, and ran a shoeshine business in Nashville until just before his death."

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Lester Flatt, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tenn., 1972. "Lester Flatt and banjoist Earl Scruggs were the successful Flatt and Scruggs. Flatt's contributions included strong baritone vocals and a signature guitar run, widely imitated even today."

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Drunk Dancers, Merchant's Cafe, Nashville, Tenn., 1974

By Claire O'Neill

It may come as a surprise that the photographer who shot these country stars — and their fans — is from Massachusetts. But, Henry Horenstein explains, country music "was a rural music, not necessarily a Southern music."

As a young photographer, Horenstein spent a good part of the 1970s and early '80s at bluegrass festivals, Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, New England honky-tonks and elsewhere, documenting what he believed was an "era that was going to go away."

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Tue August 28, 2012

This Week's Essential Listening, From Animal Collective, Cat Power, Menomena And More

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Menomena (clockwise from upper left), Cat Power, Matthew E. White, Buke & Gase

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Originally published on Sun September 2, 2012 9:59 am

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All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are back from their 2012 World Tour, which is to say they visited Seattle and Portland, Ore. last week, and have returned with a batch of new songs and stories to share. On the west coast Bob and Robin hosted a couple of listening parties, where they played music for an audience, the audience got to rate the songs, then everyone talked about them, just like hardcore music fans.

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