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Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World (Bart Plantenga)
Yodeling is not just a Swiss thing. In fact, everyone from African pygmies to rhinestone cowboys to Bollywood film stars are known to yodel. Today Bart Plantenga author of Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, visits to discuss on the countless patterns and regional variations of this age-old art form. (Yes, art form.)
The Detroit Opera House has the opera world buzzing, as the world premiere of "Margaret Garner" takes place at the there this week. It features a libretto by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and music by Richard Danielpour, and Detroit Free Press music writer Mark Stryker joins us with a look at it. Also: Lorin Maazel is best known here as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, but in London, his first opera is about to debut – an adaptation of George Orwell's "1984." But critics are accusing it of being a vanity project. Norman Lebrecht, music critic of London’s Evening Standard gives us with the low-down.
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The Detroit Opera House has the opera world buzzing, as the world premiere of "Margaret Garner" takes place at the there this week. It features a libretto by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and music by Richard Danielpour, and Detroit Free Press music writer Mark Stryker joins us with a look at it. Also: Lorin Maazel is best known here as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, but in London, his first opera is about to debut – an adaptation of George Orwell's "1984." But critics are accusing it of being a vanity project. Norman Lebrecht, music critic of London’s Evening Standard gives us with the low-down.
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