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  Young People's Chorus of New York City on Soundcheck - with WNYC's Elena Park, Robert Kapilow, Francisco Núñez and WNYC host Julie Burstein(WNYC/Elise McLean)
  

  Go West, Young People!

  The WNYC Young People’s Radio Chorus will join us for a live performance, premiering excerpts from a new choral/orchestral work composed by Rob Kapilow commemorating the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark expedition. With a libretto by Darrell Kipp of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana—which includes words and phrases from Native American languages—the work revisits the historic journey in a novel way: through the eyes of the tribal nations visited by Lewis & Clark.
  
  To access the study guide that accompanies today's show, The Music of Rob Kapilow, please visit:
  » The Rob Kapilow Study Guide on YPC's website
  
  Also on the show, some arts news. Yesterday the New York Philharmonic announced that it will be extending the contract of music director Lorin Maazel until 2009. But there's a catch. We hear what that is from New York Times chief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini about the implications of the announcement. Finally, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts announced that it will acquire the archives of two legendary Broadway songwriting teams. WNYC cultural reporter Judith Kampfner is here to fill us in on what it means.

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