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1:59 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

Second Stage: Vows, 'Winter's Grave'

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By Emily White

Vows' debut album Winter's Grave arrived to NPR folded carefully in a worn piece of paper xeroxed with hand-drawn artwork. True to it's packaging, Winter's Grave is delicately hand-crafted rather then sloppily home-spun.

Vows is a dreamy, atmospheric band with pop sensibilities from a small town in New Jersey. The album's title track has a satisfying blend of enchanting and eerie sounds. It opens with a vibrant riff that rattles over synth keys but slips into dissonant, creepy organ sounds.

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Concerts
1:38 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

Live From Tanglewood: The Boston Symphony Orchestra

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra opened their 75th anniversary season at Tanglewood on July 6, 2012.
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Picnickers started arriving hours early for this concert; by the time the music started, some 12,00 concertgoers packed the Shed and Tanglewood's grounds.
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Conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi has been a frequent guest conductor at the Boston Symphony Orchestra recently.
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In an ideal pairing of music of setting, the orchestra played Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral."
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The all-Beethoven concert began with the Leonore Overture No. 3.
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Dohnanyi's gestures at the podium were mostly very restrained.
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The program for this opening night at Tanglewood on July 6, 2012, replicated the very first concert the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave at their then-new summer home in 1937.
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The Boston Globe called this performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony "full, open and robust," and praised Dohnanyi for "lean textures kept his Fifth from tipping over into the land of flabby orchestral cliche."
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The weather could not have been more perfect for dining and listening to music al fresco.
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Originally published on Mon July 9, 2012 6:59 am

Seventy-five years ago, an American institution was born: Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a cultural mecca to arts lovers and the musical refuge for generations of young artists.

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Mountain Stage
1:33 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

The David Mayfield Parade On Mountain Stage

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The David Mayfield Parade on Mountain Stage.

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The Two-Way
1:33 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

Supreme Court Health Care Decision: When A Tax Is Not A Tax

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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 4:49 pm

This paragraph from the Supreme Court's majority opinion struck us as odd:

"It is of course true that the Act describes the payment as a 'penalty,' not a 'tax.' But while that label is fatal to the application of the Anti-Injunction Act, it does not determine whether the payment may be viewed as an exercise of Congress's taxing power."

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The Two-Way
1:24 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

Good News: 'Great Progress' Reported In Fighting Colorado Springs Fire

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Smoke was rising earlier today from the Waldo Canyon wildfire that's threatening Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 5:44 pm

Our day began with talk of "hell in the review mirror" when a reporter from The Gazette in Colorado Springs fled his home earlier this week as the Waldo Canyon wildfire approached.

But the newspaper now reports that:

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