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Richard Gehr | November 08, 2007

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  • Pianist Keith Jarrett, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, pianist Pierre-Laurent Almard, singer Diana Krall, and cellist Yo Yo Ma have all delivered revealing musical moments in National Public Radio studios across the country. All these, and a whole lot more, have been collected on the network's spiffy new NPR Music.

  • Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, minus drummer Ginger Baker, will reunite for something resembling their short-lived group Blind Faith for three nights, Feb. 25, 26 and 28, at Madison Square Garden. Enjoy "Presence of the Lord" and most of the rest of Blind Faith's semi-famous 1969 show in London's Hyde Park here.

  • For better or for worse, Garth Brooks (123 million units) has unseated Elvis Presley (118.5 million units) to become history's biggest-selling solo artist. The Beatles (170 million units), however, still reign supreme.

  • A study out of Tehran's Alzahra University suggests that classical music may alleviate depression. Fifty-six depressed subjects who listened to Beethoven piano sonatas twice a week saw their Beck Depression Scale scores diminish significantly.

  • In his roundup of recent rock memoirs, James Marcus observes that the '60s may never have ended for classic rockers, "those woolly mammoths who continue to roam the Earth, practically flaunting their pickled livers and capped teeth. For them, the gaudy decade has gone on and on, like a kind of prolonged childhood."

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