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Bolcom's Ragomania: A Nod to Gershwin and Blake

February 20, 2006 • Some pure Americana comes from the pen of recent four-time Grammy winner William Bolcom. His "Ragomania" honors jazz great Eubie Blake and Bolcom's idol George Gershwin. Marin Alsop conducts the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

Bolcom's Ragomania: A Nod to Gershwin and Blake

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The Grammy Awards

William Bolcom Tops Classical Grammy Awards

February 9, 2006 • William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience won the Grammys for best classical album, choral performance, and classical contemporary composition at Wednesday's awards ceremony. Other awards went to the London Symphony and singer Thomas Quasthoff.

William Bolcom Tops Classical Grammy Awards

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Music News

Project Setting Blake's Poetry to Music Now on CD

October 19, 2004 • In the 1950s, composer William Bolcom began an ambitious project to set the 46 poems in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience to music. A massive work, the result premiered in 1984. Now, a recording of Bolcom's work has finally been released. NPR's Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr reports.

Project Setting Blake's Poetry to Music Now on CD

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