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Classical Music for the Hipster in You

Posted at 4:33 PM on May 20, 2009 by Gillian Martin

As this Newsweek story says, "Don't hate him because he's popular."
Composer Nico Muhly is not yet 30 years old, but he's got one major film score under his belt, and is working on his first opera--commissioned by the Met.

And as luck would have it, the Juilliard grad is performing in Minneapolis tonight and tomorrow at the Southern Theater.

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