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Reviews

An On-Time Messenger for the Lord

It takes no special insight to point out the kinship of blues and gospel but 81-year-old LEO 'BUD' WELCH's debut album, Sabougla Voices, presses that truth home with a ferocity and unwavering conviction remarkable even for these most deeply personal musical styles.

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Departments

Dame Kiri Turns 70, Bids Farewell to Opera (But That’s Not All, Folks)

Celebrating her 70th birthday today, DAME KIRI TE KANAWA is appearing at Covent Garden in a Donizetti farce--her last opera role, she says. But it's not the last we'll hear of her. Deep Roots pays tribute to a great.

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Deep Roots Theater

No Down Payment (1957)

In 1957 director MARTIN RITT shattered the facade of bucolic suburban life in post-war America in his lost classic, NO DOWN PAYMENT. TONY RANDALL, JOANNE WOODWARD and PAT HINGLE lead an excellent cast. Plus two obscure Popeye-related cartoons.

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Features / News

Video Moment of the Week

Traditional bluegrass quartet NU-BLU is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, with a new album (Ten) and three new videos of songs from that album. The first of those videos is right here, 'Trains I Didn't Take.'

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Pleasures Of Music

Contemporary Music

During a four-month concert tour of America in 1928, composer MAURICE RAVEL delivered a then-controversial lecture urging American classical musicians to incorporate African-American music into their compositions. Ahead of his time, was he?

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Talking Animals

It’s a Giraffe! It’s a Horse! It’s a Zebra! <br />No, It’s an Okapi, the Odd Duck of the Congo

A giraffe head plopped on a dark brown horse body with the rump and legs of a zebra--not a mistake from the Animal Design Studio, but a real animal, the okapi, the last large animal discovered in Africa. And John Lukas has been working hard…

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Christine Santelli's Video Of The Month

‘I’d Rather Go Blind’

Live at the Lincoln Inn in Jersey City, NJ, Christine Santelli performs 'I'd Rather Go Blind

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Spotlight Album

‘There Is a Great Desire in All Souls for What Is Good and Beautiful’

The BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES are back with another moving seasonal epistle to follow last year's chart busting Angels and Saints. LENT AT EPHESUS, the sisters' new album, is a true sacred masterpiece.

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Away Out There

‘Dramatic, Exciting and Cool’

Now showing in selected cities across America, the riveting documentary PARTICLE FEVER chronicles the search for the elusive HIGGS BOSON, the 'God' particle that binds the universe together--a science story with a human touch.

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Features / News

A Song for Awuya

Acclaimed young harpist ANNE DENHOLM does wondrous things with composer-violist ANNE BEAMISH's 'Awuya,' a near-nine-minute composition commissioned to raise awareness about African sleeping sickness.

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