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One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.

"While the world is waiting for the UFC Freedom 250 on June 14 at the White House, I challenge President Putin to a cage match," says Pussy Riot.

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein played transcriptions of Bach's choral music and cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach joined her for the three gamba sonatas by Bach.

A starry concert event showcased Previn's last composition along with Greig, Fauré and Philip Glass plus new music by Kevin Puts.

Dinnerstein's masterful and thoroughly adult interpretive force makes her new album a balm for the soul, especially in such troubled times as these.

More than a fine pianist, Lara Downes is a cultural curator of top rank, illuminating the tradition of female composers from Clara Schumann to today.

Jefferson Friedman's sharply modernistic but accessible new 'The Heart Wakes Into' paired nicely with Brahms's Quintet in F minor at the Metropolitan Museum.

Plus Florence + the Machine, Alabama Shakes, The Replacements, Buena Vista Social Club, Larry Coryell, Jorma Kaukonen, Simone Dinnerstein, and The Yardbirds.

Simone Dinnerstein's career did not follow the usual path of a concert pianist and she dares to speak for herself.