DENVER — Another school year has begun at the University of Denver music department, renewing a familiar pattern for professor Lawrence Golan. He instructed a nervous young conductor on the proper way to grip her baton. He patiently guided the orchestra through its second rehearsal of Jean Sebilius’s Symphony No. 5. He prepared for the season’s first concert . Read full article > >

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Georgi Andreev’s oratorio “A Melancholy Beauty” relates that rare Holocaust story: one with a happy ending. It had its world premiere Tuesday at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in a compelling performance by the National Philharmonic and members of seven U.S. and Bulgarian choral ensembles under the baton of Henry H. Leck. The story relates the 1943 refusal of Bulgarian citizens, clergy and government leaders to allow Nazi deportation of the country’s Jewish population. As a result, all 49,000 Jews in Bulgaria were saved. Read full article > >

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More floodgates could be opened today, sending water from the Mississippi River toward homes and farms in an effort to spare Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

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Louisiana sends water into spillway

The Army Corps of Engineers opened the Morganza Spillway near Baton Rouge, Louisiana at 3 p.m. Saturday, sending water from the Mississippi River at 10,000 cubic feet per second. Eventually enough bays will be opened to release water at 125,000 cubic…

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Engineers are preparing to open the gates of an emergency spillway in Louisiana. It will ease pressure on levees protecting Baton Rouge and New Orleans, but inundate some 3,000 square miles of Cajun country. (May 14) Read full article > >

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The ambulance sped toward Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from the New Orleans airport, overrun with refugees from a drowned city. A mother pregnant with twins screamed from labor pains.

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