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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

In a year of unlikely holiday albums, singer and pianist Tori Amos takes the cake with her baroque new release Midwinter Graces. Today, in a broadcast from WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, she talks about the album’s new originals and reworked traditional carols, and performs live for our studio audience. Also: Broadway leading man Brian Stokes Mitchell performs songs from his own holiday album.

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Tori Amos and Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Brian Stokes Mitchell made his name as Broadway's go-to baritone in musicals like Ragtime, Man of La Mancha, and Kiss Me Kate. But in recent years the Broadway star has explored different sides to his career: appearing with symphony orchestras, doing cabaret at Feinstein's, creating a children's book, and recording ...

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