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Super Conductor

Richard Strauss offers tips for young conductors.

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Big Band Theory

The red-light origins of jazz.

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Wild Combinations

Genres formed by musical collisions and appropriations.

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Automata for the People

The mechanization of music.

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Magic Flutes

How flutes created music around the world.

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Concert Halls of Fame

History’s greatest music venues.

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Body Talk

What music does, from head to toe.

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Earth Music

Listening to the natural world.

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You’re So Vain

When a musician has that special someone in mind.

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Old Is New Again

Instruments whose sounds came back around.

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Reigning Sounds

Musicians in office, politicians with chops.

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