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Flamenco Frenzy

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

It's cold outside but flamenco is hotter than ever, showing up in movies, TV shows, advertisements and bigger concert halls. Today, as the Flamenco Festival New York brings 100 dancers, vocalists and guitarists direct from Spain, we look at why flamenco has gone from specialty genre to big buiness. Also: composer Ruth Fazal talks about her oratorio inspired by drawings made by children during the holocaust. And the WNYC Young Peoples' Radio Chorus will sing excerpts live.


The Business of Flamenco

Flamenco has moved beyond the stereotypes of tapas background CDs and kitsch souvenirs. These days it sells out concert halls and shows up in mainstream TV shows and movies. Brook Zern, Director of Flamenco Center USA, and Robert Browning, Executive and artistic director of the World Music Institute, give some perspective.


Concentration Camp Oratorio

Ruth Fazal's "Oratorio Terezín," inspired by the book I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a collection drawings and poems written by children in the Terezín concentration camp, gets its American premiere this week. The WNYC Young People's Radio Chorus will sing excerpts live in studio.

Oratorio Terezín Web site


At the Core of the Apple Battle

Technology giant Apple has reached a deal with the Beatles to end the dispute over the Apple name. Troy Wolverton, a reporter with the San Jose Mercury News, fills us in.



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