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Music Interviews
3:12 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

In A Clouded World, The CD Can 'Stay'

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Twelve years after uploading his band's songs on MP3.com, Jim's Big Ego lead singer Jim Infantino (center) still thinks digital music is "pretty neat."
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Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 4:24 pm

Twelve years ago on All Things Considered, we presented the story of a Boston band that was trying something new to get its tunes to fans: Jim's Big Ego took its recorded music to potential listeners by way of the Internet.

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Monkey See
3:03 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

'Route 66': A Country-Crisscrossing Series Comes To Home Video

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George Maharis (left) played Buz Murdock alongside Martin Milner as Tod Stiles in Route 66, two men driving across America in search of home.
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Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 4:24 pm

When you've seen a lot of movies where Toronto plays the part of New York, you come to appreciate location shooting. And on today's All Things Considered, you'll hear from the star of one of television's more ambitious series when it comes to location shooting: Route 66, which followed two guys around the country in a cool Corvette as they looked for a place to settle.

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The Salt
2:44 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

The Beverages That Beguile Us, Through A Whole New Lens

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By April Fulton

What happens when you give an artist who is also a former bartender access to a camera mounted with a microscope?

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Classics in Concert
2:35 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Carnegie Hall Live: Lang Lang Plays Bach, Schubert And Chopin

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Pianist Lang Lang in recital at Carnegie Hall on May 29, 2012.
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A bird's-eye view from backstage during Lang Lang's performance.
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In his introspective concert of Bach, Schubert, and Chopin on this evening, Lang Lang — now just on the cusp of turning 30 years old — is evolving away from the more flamboyant stage presence that set the classical world on fire.
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About 120 spectators were seated on stage with Lang Lang during this performance.
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Through his astounding international popularity, Lang Lang is said to be personally responsible for some 40 million children in China taking up Western classical music.
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Included in the program was Schubert's massive and meandering Sonata in B-Flat Major D. 960, which Lang Lang says he has come to prize in part for the space between the notes.
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Lang Lang acknowledges the New York audience's enthusiastic response.
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A peep from backstage at Carnegie Hall.
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Long famous for his flash and dazzle at the keyboard, pianist Lang Lang gave a surprisingly introspective concert of Bach, Schubert and Chopin at Carnegie Hall on May 29, 2012.
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About 120 spectators sat onstage with Lang Lang during this performance.
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The irrepressibly congenial pianist is said to be personally responsible for some 40 million Chinese children having taken up the study of Western classical music.
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Lang Lang ended the announced program with Liszt favorites: the Romance S. 169 and "La Campanella."
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Lang Lang says that part of what has drawn him to the Schubert is the spaces between the notes.
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Pianist Lang Lang acknowledges his very enthusiastic New York audience.
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Originally published on Fri June 22, 2012 3:36 pm

PROGRAM:

  • BACH Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825

  • SCHUBERT Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960

  • CHOPIN Twelve Etudes, Op. 25

  • LISZT Romance, S. 169

  • LiSZT Grande Etude de Paganini, S. 141 "La Campanella"

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The Two-Way
2:33 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Finds Traces Of More Highly Enriched Uranium In Iran

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By Eyder Peralta

In its periodic report on Iran's nuclear program, the United Nation's nuclear watchdog said it found traces of uranium enriched to a level higher than it had previously reported.

NPR's Mike Shuster filed this report for our Newscast unit:

"When International Atomic Energy Agency monitors carry out routine inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities, they take environmental samples to help them determine the nature of uranium enrichment underway.

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