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Alt.Latino Goes Classical: Orchestral Music From Latin America

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Alt.Latino

Alt.Latino Goes Classical: Orchestral Music From Latin America

May 19, 2016 • Hear re-imagined pre-Colombian music and arias from the jungles of Brazil and beyond, chosen with the help of Tom Huizenga from NPR Music's Deceptive Cadence.

Alt.Latino Goes Classical: Orchestral Music From Latin America

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Songs We Love: The Tallis Scholars, 'Nunc Dimittis'

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Deceptive Cadence

Songs We Love: The Tallis Scholars, 'Nunc Dimittis'

March 19, 2015 • A British choral group, known for its incandescent sound, reveals bells and sunlight in the Estonian composer's Nunc dimittis.

Tallis Scholars: Nunc dimittis

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Pet Sounds: Tell Us About Your Animals' Favorite Music

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Pet Sounds: Tell Us About Your Animals' Favorite Music

June 11, 2011 • Sharks may like AC/DC, but what bands do your pets enjoy? We offer up a few of our own stories.

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The NPR Classical 50

Josquin Des Prez's Luminous Sound

July 14, 2009 • He was the greatest composer of the Renaissance, and as significant a figure in his own day as Beethoven was in the early 19th century. Hear the pure, expressive sound of his Missa Pange Lingua illuminated brilliantly by a choral group called the Tallis Scholars.

Ted Libbey And Fred Child Recommend Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua

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Pope Benedict XVI Visits the U.S.

Composing for the Pope: A Church Music Primer

April 20, 2008 • Throughout history, the papacy has been a powerful patron of music, from Gregorian chant to modern Masses. Historian Robert Greenberg notes that much of the finest music has come from composers associated with the Sistine Chapel.

Composing for the Pope: A Church Music Primer

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