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Ronnie Spector's new album, English Heart, is filled with British hits from the 1960s.

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On Ronnie Spector's New Album, Don't Let Her Be Misunderstood

1:38pm April 02, 2016

by NPR Staff

You might know her as the leader of The Ronettes, but Spector has seen and done a lot since the days of "Baby, I Love You." Her new album, English Heart, is filled with British hits from the 1960s.

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Asia Palmer, now a high-school freshman at the Baltimore School for the Arts, has been with the OrchKids program since it began in 2008.

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Young Musicians Blossom In Baltimore's OrchKids Program

12:11pm April 02, 2016

by NPR Staff

For students in the program, "music becomes this vehicle for experiencing and envisioning themselves with lives filled with possibility," says Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop.

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Members of the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas men's choir, perform Tyler's Suite at the Dallas City Performance Hall on March 31, 2016.

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Requiem For A Teen: 'Tyler's Suite' Honors A Life Cut Short

10:46am April 02, 2016

by Wade Goodwyn

A new choral work is on tour, based on the life of Tyler Clementi — the college freshman who committed suicide in 2010, after his roommate secretly filmed him in bed with another man.

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#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Spring Into This Weekend

8:27am April 02, 2016

#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and The Two-Way. Correspondents, editors and producers share the pieces that have kept them reading. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

"I think for a long time I was in a little bit of denial over my voice coming back," Maren Morris says of transitioning from songwriter to artist.

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One Year Later, Maren Morris On The Song That Changed Her Life

4:58pm April 01, 2016

by NPR Staff

When the country singer wrote "My Church," she pictured an arena singing it back to her. And it happened. "By the time we get to the breakdown chorus, every corner of that place was singing along."

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Sense Of Place Asheville: The Get Right Band

4:42pm April 01, 2016

The Asheville, N.C., music scene is more than just Americana; there's funk in those hills, too.

Michelle Moog-Koussa of the Bob Moog Foundation.

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Sense Of Place Asheville: Bob Moog's Legacy Lives Through His Daughter's Work

4:26pm April 01, 2016

The synthesizer pioneer had a longstanding love for Asheville, N.C. Hear Michelle Moog-Koussa discuss her father's relationship with the area.

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Sense Of Place Asheville: Rising Appalachia

4:19pm April 01, 2016

Sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith put a new spin on mountain music.

Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in Miles Ahead.

When Is A Biopic Not A Biopic? When Don Cheadle Meets Miles Davis

2:52pm April 01, 2016

by Andrew Lapin

Cheadle takes on the jazz great in an uneven but inventive film that struggles at times to bring clarity to its idea of Davis but experiments intriguingly with past, present, fact and fiction.

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Paul Bley On Piano Jazz

2:47pm April 01, 2016

The avant-garde pianist performed original motifs and a free duet with Marian McPartland in 2000.