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Mary Lou Williams.

Read The Lead Sheet: Top 5 Jazz Stories This Week

November 16, 2012 – Top ten deaths to listen to before you jazz, Blue Note's branding and Marian on Mary Lou.

Jesse & Joy accept one of their four awards during the Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Thursday.

Watch Jesse & Joy, Juanes Win Big At Latin Grammys

November 16, 2012 – Sibling duo Jesse & Joy won four awards, including record and song of the year for "¡Corre!"

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Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo Vänskä, whose pleas to his symphony's management and players just went public.

Read Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week

November 16, 2012 – Vänskä pleads for both sides to work together in Minnesota and a monocled (!) tenor signs to DG.

Herb Alpert (left) and Jerry Moss, who founded A&M Records in Alpert's garage in 1962.

Watch A&M Records: Independent, With Major Appeal

November 14, 2012 – The eclectic label, which stayed independent for nearly 30 years, celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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Rita reimagined classic Persian songs for her latest album, My Joys.

Watch Iran To Israel And Back To Iran: Rita's Music Goes Home

November 12, 2012 – The singer's album, My Joys, has successfully crossed borders to her homeland, despite being banned.

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Nickelback's Chad Kroeger performs during halftime of a Canadian football game in Vancouver. On the band's own tours, expensive pyrotechnics are more rare.

Listen Love To Hate Nickelback? Joke's On You

November 10, 2012 – The divisive band is laughing all the way to the bank.

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This month, a symphony composed by World War II veteran Harold Van Heuvelen had its premiere.

Listen A Veteran's Standing Ovation, 70 Years In The Making

November 10, 2012 – This week, Harold Van Heuvelen finally saw the debut of a symphony he wrote during World War II.

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Trumpeter Ted Curson, depicted here on the cover of his album Urge, died last Sunday morning.

Read The Lead Sheet: Top 5 Jazz Stories This Week

November 9, 2012 – RIP Ted Curson, a new jazz singer and the Jazz Composers Collective's modern history.

American composer Elliott Carter, circa 1975. He died this Monday at age 103.

Read Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week

November 9, 2012 – Lamenting Carter's death, trouble in Spokane and another award for Dudamel: what you need to read.

Taylor Swift's fourth studio album, Red, sold 1.2 million copies in its first week, the highest first-week sales total in a decade.

Listen The Secret Genius Of Taylor Swift

November 9, 2012 – Taylor Swift's answer to a surprisingly tricky question: What's the best way to sell an album?

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Drake, who had the top torrent downloaded in the U.S. in the first half of 2012, according to Musicmetric, poses at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.

Listen Studying How, And What, We Download

November 8, 2012 – Digital sales are high, but unauthorized music file sharing is still going strong.

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Elliott Carter at Tanglewood in 2008 on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz is sitting right behind Carter.

Watch Always A Rose: Elliott Carter Remembered

November 7, 2012 – Carter's vital new ideas changed 20th-century music. The composer died Monday at 103.

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Composer Elliott Carter at the piano in 1989.

Watch Elliott Carter, Giant Of American Music, Dies At 103

November 6, 2012 – The composer, who won two Pulitzers for his adventurous music, died in New York.

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Steven Tyler, Jimmy Fallon, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel participate in NBCUniversal's Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together Relief Benefit on Friday in New York City. Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Jon Bon Jovi and Sting also performed. And now we're done talking about that.

Read The Week In Music: What To Read Now That Isn't About The Hurricane

November 3, 2012 – Read three music stories to divert and edify you while we all try to get back to normal.

A window-screen view toward conductor Marin Alsop's studio, badly damaged during the hurricane.

Listen Storm Scores: Finding Poignant Reminders In Water-Damaged Music

November 3, 2012 – A conductor considers scores in her personal library that were struck by Hurricane Sandy.

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Daft Punk On 'The Soul That A Musician Can Bring'

Hear the elusive electronic duo in conversation with All Things Considered's Audie Cornish.

Amidon says the melodies of shape-note hymns are some of the "deepest-seated for me."

Sam Amidon: Reshaping An American Folk Tradition

Amidon says the melodies of shape-note hymns are some of the "deepest-seated for me."

A reedman, talent scout and bandleader, Herman led "Herds" that were both popular and respected.

Woody Herman At 100: 'A Blues Player From His Heart'

A reedman, talent scout and bandleader, Herman led "Herds" that were both popular and respected.

Mvula's debut is ambitiously confident, as if she and her band had perfected their sound years ago.

Laura Mvula's Velvet 'Moon' Is A Revelation

Mvula's debut is ambitiously confident, as if she and her band had perfected their sound years ago.

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