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Thursday, November 24, 2005
  • The Forgotten Arm, the new studio album from Aimee Mann (aimeemann.com)

    The Knock-Out Punch

    Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann recently released "The Forgotten Arm," a concept album starring a washed-up boxer, and a girl from the local fair who ran away with him. Today, how Mann's own experience in the boxing ring helped shape the album's story. Also: Finnish-born conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen has presided as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 13 years and has built it into a virtuoso ensemble with a ultra-modern concert hall and a fresh approach to programming. He's also a composer whose works are increasingly showing the influence of his adopted LA home. And you thought "LA culture" just meant Mickey Mouse and plastic surgery?

Aimee Mann

Powerhouse singer-songwriter Aimee Mann joins us, fresh from the boxing ring.
» Aimee Mann's Web site

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The boy-ish Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen visits to talk about classical music in LA.
» The Clogs Web site

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Joshua Bell in The Greene Space

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