Anne Akiko Meyers performs a Tiny Desk concert at NPR Music in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Gillis/NPR hide caption
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Opera singers (left to right) Elīna Garanča, Helen Donath and Tamar Iveri perform in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Opera Festival. Andreas Schaad/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
It's been one year since the death of the great soprano Jessye Norman, photographed here in 2006 in Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
John Bonham of Led Zeppelin at the Los Angeles-area Inglewood Forum in 1973. Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage hide caption
Reneé Fleming (right) and Susan Graham — two "cheerful Americans" often mistaken for each other — are planning an intimate evening of French song. Craig T. Mathew/Mathew Imaging hide caption
Reneé Fleming And Susan Graham At Carnegie Hall
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Ray Chen performs at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City Tuesday, Feb. 7. Mito Habe-Evans/NPR hide caption
Septuagenarian conductor Neeme Järvi brings youthful vigor to an album of brilliant pieces by Saint-Saëns. Simon van Boxtel hide caption
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Yes, even in the straight-laced world of classical music, one can find all manner of hoodwinking and horseplay. iStockphoto.com hide caption
Joshua Bell: A Sonata in the South
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Soprano Maria Callas, rehearsing for her title role in Medea at Covent Garden in London, in 1959. John Franks/Getty Images hide caption