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The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...

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While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.

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