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All Songs Considered
11:29 am
Tue June 26, 2012

New tunes! Summer music preview

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Top row (left to right): The Antlers, Cat Power; Middle row: Bill Fay, Sean Rowe, Nas; Bottom row: Christian Scott, JEFF The Brotherhood
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Originally published on Tue June 26, 2012 6:57 pm

This week on All Songs Considered, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton offer sneak previews of some of the summer's most anticipated releases.

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Arts & Culture
1:03 pm
Mon June 25, 2012

St. Louis Symphony musicians reach 4-year deal

Powell Hall, home of the St. Louis Symphony.
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Union-backed musicians with the St. Louis Symphony have agreed to a new four-year contract, more than a year before the current contract expires.

The contract announced Monday by the symphony and the American Federation of Musicians Local 2-197 takes effect in September 2013 and goes through August 2017. It affects more than 90 musicians with the 132-year-old symphony, which is considered among the nation's oldest.

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3:50 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Jazz and Juneteenth: 5 songs which speak of the freedom struggle

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According to the Missouri State Archives, Juneteenth is officially recognized today in 41 states, including Missouri. NPR Music provides this selection of "five recordings, picked by five musicians, which represent the triumphs and tribulations within the freedom struggle."
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Today, June 19, is a holiday known as Juneteenth - the oldest commemoration of slavery's end. Though the Emancipation Proclamation declared the freedom of slaves in Confederate states on Jan. 1, 1963, it was only on June 19, 1865 (months after Confederate forces had surrendered) that Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas, to spread news of the war's end, and to enforce the proclamation in Texas.
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