Tuesday, April 26, 2016

NPR Music - You Must Hear This

TINY DESK

Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds: Tiny Desk Concert

The New York band's punchy horn section, bluesy vocals and uniquely transformative harmonica solos instantly demand attention.
DECEPTIVE CADENCE

In Fort Worth Opera's 'JFK,' A Tension Between Joy And Tragedy 

The show tells the story of the last night of the president's life. "We took the myth of JFK and we really attempted to make him mortal," librettist Royce Vavrek says.
JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA

The Legacy Of The Benny Goodman Quartet

The small group that made a bespectacled white clarinetist a star happened to be of jazz's first racially integrated bands. Wendell Pierce and four young clarinetists tell the story live on stage.

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