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Returning To Music, Tested By Loss

Cellist and composer Erik Friedlander's new album is titled Claws & Wings. Angelo Merendino/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Music Interviews

Returning To Music, Tested By Loss

Music was Erik Friedlander's refuge when his wife fell ill. Then, in one week, he lost both. The cellist and composer speaks with NPR's Arun Rath about making the new album Claws & Wings after months out of commission.

Returning To Music, Tested By Loss

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Erik Friedlander's Bonebridge: Live In Concert

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The Checkout: Live

Erik Friedlander's Bonebridge: Live In Concert

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The improvising cellist has explored jazz with his New York-based trio for years. For his latest project, he adds a slide guitar, all the better to take in the down-home flavors of the American South. The quartet performs live.

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Studio Sessions

Erik Friedlander: 'Sifting the Shoals of Time'

Erik Friedlander's Block Ice & Propane contains ballads and hymns to a life most Americans could make common cause with, along with people who relate to what is most nomadic in America.

Listen to Friedlander in Studio 4A with Jacki Lyden

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