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Deceptive Cadence
3:47 pm
Fri June 22, 2012

Around The Classical Internet: June 22, 2012

Credit Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
Gustavo Dudamel applauds the youngsters of Scotland's Big Noise Orchestra after their Thursday performance in Stirling.
  • This week, Gustavo Dudamel was in Scotland to visit Raploch, Stirling, the "former haunt of notorious crime-clan ­matriarch Big Mags Haney and once so educationally deprived it was dubbed a 'higher-free zone.'" It now is the home of Big Noise, a classical music project for kids run by Sistema Scotland.
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12:01 pm
Fri June 22, 2012

Author OK with Midwestern label, for now

  • Molly McNett reads an excerpt from her story "Ozzie the Burro."
  • Morning Edition Version (June 22, 2012)

Molly McNett doesn't write exclusively about the Midwest, but rural Illinois is a big part of her identity and her writing. "I'm not going to write about hipsters in Brooklyn," she says, "because I just don't know a lot about that."

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Deceptive Cadence
10:58 am
Fri June 22, 2012

America's Got Palate

Credit Pablo Helguera

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 3:42 pm

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Pablo Helguera is a New York-based artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and performance. You can see more of his work at Artworld Salon and on his own site.

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