This week's broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera takes on The Nose, Dmitri Shostakovich's 1930 opera. It tells the story of a bureaucrat in St. Petersburg named Kovalyov who wakes up one day to discover his nose is missing.
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This week on Q2 with Terrance McKnight, we hear trailblazing recorder player Michala Petri perform Vagn Holmboe's Concerto for Recorder, String Orchestra, Celeste and Vibraphone.
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