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Composer Michael Remson introduces us to some of the new art-songs he wrote during the year-long project that saw him concentrating on creating only that type of piece. Composer Michael Remson; singers Kelli Estes, Danica Dawn Johnston and Joshua Green; and bass-baritone and pianist Shawn Heller, perform and talk with St.John Flynn. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!

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In this week's Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7 Program Director, St.John Flynn, and opera expert, Eric Skelly, take a quick and, as always, light-hearted look at how opera composers over the years and the centuries have used biblical texts and stories as the subject of their works. You might be surprised at what the OCS guys have to say!

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In this Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly discuss Richard Wagner's medieval masterpiece, Lohengrin, a work that gives the first taste of the style Wagner was to perfect in his Ring Cycle. It’s the story of the mysterious Knight of the Swan who appears out of a dream to defend the honor of and then marry the innocent Elsa who, in turn, cannot resist asking the one question she is forbidden to ask…with devastating consequences. For more Opera Cheat Sheet, go to www.classical917.org/cheatsheet. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!