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		<title>Opera Stars of Today—Nino Machaidze</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nino Machaidze [b. 1983] is a native of Tblisi, Georgia.  After completing her vocal studies in her country’s capital city, she performed in a number of productions at the Paliashvili Opera House there.  She was the first place winner in 2006 in the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition in Istanbul, having relocated to Milan and enrolled [...]
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		<title>Famous Soloists—Hilary Hahn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hilary Hahn [b. 1979], from Lexington, Virginia, first took up the violin at the age of four.  She participated as a student of the Suzuki method for about a year, at which point her extraordinary skills were realized and she “graduated” to private instruction.  From ages 10 to 17, Hahn was taught at Philadelphia’s Curtis [...]
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		<title>Composer&#8217;s Corner—Edward Elgar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Elgar [1857–1934] is considered among the giants of British classical music composition, as vital to the genre in his era as Henry Purcell was to the seventeenth century and Benjamin Britten to the twentieth.  Most people know him primarily—or perhaps exclusively—for “Pomp and Circumstance” [1901], the dirge-like march that is played perpetually at school [...]
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		<title>Opera Stars of Today—Gerald Finley</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerald Finley [b. 1960], born in Montreal, Canada, is a bass-baritone who is particularly appreciated for his work in contemporary opera.  He also specializes in baritone roles in the operas of W.A. Mozart, having appeared multiple times as Don Giovanni, the Count Almaviva, Papageno, and Guglielmo.  He began his singing career as a member of [...]
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		<title>Masters of the Podium—Fabio Luisi</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabio Luisi [b. 1959] was born in Genoa, Italy.  He took up the piano at the age of four and eventually earned a keyboard studies degree in 1978 from the Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini—named for the 17th century virtuoso violinist—that opened in Genoa in 1830.  His interest in conducting led him to enroll at the Academy [...]
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		<title>Modern American Composers—Carlisle Floyd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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