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Participants in the NSO Summer Music Institute play an evening of chamber music in large string and wind ensembles.

Characterized by beautiful sculpture, exquisite performance, and colorful music, Chengdu Puppets sing, dance, and even perform acrobatics. The performance showcases a variety of genres from the region, including shadow puppetry and marionettes.

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The George Washington University’s Corcoran Chamber Music Institute will perform a recital of chamber music.

Performing original music by San Francisco-based composer George Hurd, The Hurd Ensemble, selected by Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates, unifies the worlds of electronic and classical music. All the music is written for string quartet (violin, viola, cello, upright bass), piano, and electronics, meticulously bound together with digitally arranged sounds collected from Hurd’s travels.

Mario Armstrong interviews Bill Murray on the Mark Twain Prize red carpet at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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Hailing from Goundam near Timbuktu, Mamadou Kelly is backed by veteran sidemen collectively known as Ban Kai Na—“Hama” Sankare on calabash, “Youro” Cisse on djourkel (a monochord mandolin), Ibrahim Nabo on rhythm guitar, and Baba Traore on bass. The band cooks refined rhythms into profound simplicity.

National Sympyhony Orchestra's Matt Guilford shares warm and funny stories about Mstislav Rostropovich, including how Slava joked the trombonist's playing could kill.

Mstislav Rostropovich, nicknamed "Slava," is globally recognized both for his formidable musical gifts and as an ardent advocate for human rights – was music director of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1977 until 1994. His tenure proved to be one of the most glittering periods in the life of the NSO thus far, and saw the introduction of the signature projects that remain an important part of the NSO's life to this day. One example is the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund for New Orchestral Works in 1982; this has led to the creation of more than 60 works by more than 50 American composers, including two Pulitzer-Prize winners. The American Residencies, which would take the NSO to 21 states, began during his time, with Alaska and Louisiana.

Touring was a prominent part of Rostropovich's tenure with the NSO: extensive travel around North and South America, four European Tours, the NSO's first visits to Asia, and, in 1990, Rostropovich's triumphant return, at the helm of the NSO, to Russia after 16 years in exile for defending human rights. The capstone, the 1993 Russian visit in which the NSO became the first orchestra ever to perform in Red Square, ensured that the Rostropovich/NSO partnership was one heard around the world. Rostropovich's time as music director had placed the NSO on the artistic map as never before.

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