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INFECTIOUSLY JOYFUL -- RECORDING OF THE MONTH

Missa Criolla
Counterpoint and friends; Robert de Cormier, director
Dacapo Records 2.110402 (DVD)

'... one of those rare discs which nearly everyone will like' -- Malcolm Tattersall

CD reviews also this month by Howard Smith, Patric Standford, Ron Bierman and Mike Wheeler, featuring the Balanescu Quartet, pianist Kumiko Ida's British Piano Album, symphonic works by Robert Kurka, Sakari Oramo conducting Bartok, and Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman playing Schnittke, Paert, Vasks and Kancheli, all illustrated with soundbytes :

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Recommended on DVD, Robert Anderson reviews Rameau's 'Les Indes galantes'

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American composer Meira Warshauer named a South Carolina Arts Commission 2006 Artist Fellow.

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Elizabeth Puscasu requests help in replacing a school piano. Some help has already kindly been offered.

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