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The Classical Current Crossover!

Posted at 8:42 PM on April 14, 2010 by Mark Wheat
Filed under: The Current Presents

Even though we all have desks on the same floor of our building here in St.Paul, the staff of The Current and KSJN our classical music sister station don't get to work together very often. But this week there's a few cool crossovers happening. They have been hosting a talented set of young musicians The Parker Quartet as their artists in residences, doing a tour of venues all around the state. The final one is Thursday night at The Varsity, which usually hosts OUR artists!

You could also crossover if you have an old musical instrument that you'd like to donate to one of our public schools as part of ; Play It Forward

Then one of the most talked about young composers in is town Thursday at The Southern Theater, Nico Mulhy. He just helped Jonsi from Sigur Ros record his new album. So that got me thinking about all the musicians that we play who also play or sample classical music. So I asked my buddy (he likes soccer too!) Fred Child of Performance Today to join me for an edition of The Current Presents this Sunday, 9pm...
The Classical Current Crossover!

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