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Selecting the Song of the Summer

Every June around this time, candidates for the year's "Song of the Summer" start to appear. Those are the songs that blast from car windows, beach radios and cell phone speakers. Today, we talk with Rob Tannenbaum, editor at Blender magazine, and Maura Johnson, editor at Idolator.com about makes a summer jam stick - is it romance? Escape?

Check out five summer song contenders and tell us below what your picks are.

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Techno for an Answer

French choreographer Pascal Rioult first made a name dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company before achieving international acclaim as a daring interpreter of classical music. Now he's finding inspiration in... British techno? He joins us to talk about the new work based on the music of the band, Autechre, which he's unveiling at the Joyce Theater.

Pascal Rioult's Website

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Opera at the Ballpark

Two very different Bay Area teams are getting ready to turn a tricky double play. The San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants announced they will present a live simulcast this fall of Camille Saint-Saëns' biblical epic “Samson and Delilah” at the Giants' ballpark, AT&T Park. We talk with Gramophone magazine's Anastasia Tsioulcas about enjoying opera in unusual surroundings.

Anastasia Tsioulcas' article on Gramophone.co.uk
More on Samson and Delilah simulcast at AT&T Park

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