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June 12

Week 370: “The Plum Blossom” by Yusef Lateef

Shakespeare insisted that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. True as…

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June 5

Week 369: “Cello Sonata in E Minor (First Movement)” by Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi, had he been born a few centuries later, might have fit in well…

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April 17

Week 362: “Prelude No. 3, Op. 17” by Alexander Scriabin

I think one of the big mistakes we often make when setting goals or making…

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February 13

Week 353: “Pur Ti Miro” by Claudio Monteverdi

The problem with love songs is that they’re often one-sided. We only get half the…

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January 16

Week 349: “Surprises” by Ibrahim Maalouf

There are not many cities in the world with an archaeological history as rich as…

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January 2

Week 347: “Hummingbird” by The Watanabes

If you’re a western-hemisphere white person, there’s a good chance that you know someone who…

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December 12

Week 344: “Let It Snow” by filous

If you’re surprised by what you hear when you press play this week, I don’t…

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December 5

Week 343: “Letter” by Yosi Horikawa

Today, for no particular reason beyond the title of this week’s featured song, I would…

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April 25

Week 311: “Homerun Ubershow” by The High Llamas (Schneider TM remix)

For a brief period in the late 90s, one of the best ways to discover…

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April 11

Week 309: “Heartbreaker” by The Cardigans

Sweden really has a knack for pop music. From ABBA in the 70s, to Roxette in the…

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April 4

Week 308: “Rose Rouge” by St. Germain

This is the song that made me realize I liked jazz. I never disliked it,…

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March 7

Week 304: “Open” by Rhye

Here’s your fact of the day: for almost a century, Canada and Denmark have been…

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February 29

Week 303: “Artificial Sweetener” by Daisuke Tanabe

I ate a lot of candy as a kid. The problem began at age 8,…

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February 1

Week 299: “O Sacrum Convivium” by Olivier Messaien

Two things strike me about Olivier Messaien: a) He really liked birds, almost to a…

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December 7

Week 291: “Damascus” by Oskar Schuster

Does your family have that one Christmas album that gets played every year, even though…

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November 23

Week 289: “Moonlight Sonata” by Ludwig Van Beethoven

On top of being one of the greatest composers of all time, Beethoven might take…

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October 26

Week 285: “Lit” by Kiasmos

The other day I realized that I had been tagging some posts on this blog…

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September 14

Week 279: “Dawn’s Song” by Michael Kaeshammer

Small concerts are the best. There’s nothing wrong with super-sized, stadium-filling mega-shows, but sometimes music…

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September 7

Week 278: “Serial Lover” by Ecce Cello

As we’ve already learned, cellists are the coolest members of the orchestra. But David Fernandez,…

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August 10

Week 274: “Andante Cantabile” by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky

One of the most popular games to play when analyzing the career of a troubled…

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