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Episode 49: Alex Klein / When There Are No Words
On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg converses with Grammy-winning oboist Alex Klein about his upcoming album with pianist Phillip Bush.
When There Are No Words features 20th-century Czech, German, British, American, and Brazilian composers who created music in response to the political turmoil they encountered, including war, exile, and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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Cedille Records augments its 2018 release, Notorious RBG in Song, critically proclaimed “an engrossing, episodic portrait” (WQXR) and “vivid and beautiful” (Classics Today) — with a digital single, “On the Joys of Recorded Music,” being released on March 6, in anticipation of what would have been Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 93rd birthday (March 15).
To celebrate Cedille’s release of Black Being, featuring a piece about Black Womanhood by Flutronix, the performing and composing duo of Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, a playlist of works by Black women composers on Cedille.
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