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      <title>Pride Week on Voices Carry</title>
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      <description>Listening to vocal music of gay composers</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:38:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Twelve finalists competed for cash prizes and a chance to perform live on Louisville Public Media stations.</description>
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      <description>Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:33:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Michel Martin, Olivia Hampton</dc:creator>
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      <title>Will Sharpe imagines Mozart's day-to-day in 'Amadeus'</title>
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      <description>Sharpe played a newly rich tech bro on vacation in The White Lotus. Now he's starring as Mozart, a musical genius who struggles to "read the room" in a new limited TV series.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:40:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ann Marie Baldonado</dc:creator>
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      <title>Soprano Julia Bullock says the 2026 Cincinnati May Festival has something for everyone</title>
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      <description>Chatting with Grammy-award winning soprano and Festival Director, Julia Bullock about the 2026 Cincinnati May Festival.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Kiana Del</dc:creator>
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      <title>James O'Donnell on scoring history at Westminster Abbey</title>
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      <description>Organist and choir director James O'Donnell on the daily musical rituals watched by millions</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:54:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Laura Atkinson</dc:creator>
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      <title>Take flight with the Louisville Civic Orchestra's season finale</title>
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      <description>The Louisville Civic Orchestra celebrates another successful season with closing concert "Birds of a Feather."</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Kiana Del</dc:creator>
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      <title>Gabriela Lena Frank wins music Pulitzer for 'Picaflor: A future myth'</title>
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      <description>The composer created her own symphonic fable that weaves Andean cosmology with the natural world.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:30:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lisa Hirsch</dc:creator>
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      <title>The waltzes and love songs of Kentucky-born Henry Hart</title>
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      <description>Recorded for the first time, with new arrangements by Rachel Grimes, music from one of the earliest published African-American composers</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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