Deep Cuts

The music is new for them, and their world expands. I listen with them, as if for the first time, and it is new again for me.

Chamber ensemble names tend to fit into a few categories, I've found.

'Der Rosenkavalier' is the most popular work by the team of composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Classical MPR's Rex Levang has compiled a few bits of trivia that you might not know about this iconic opera.

In 2009, archaeologists in southern Germany discovered the earliest known instrument -- a 35,000-year-old flute made out of a vulture bone. You can hear a modern silver flute -- played with the same techniques as that old bone flute -- with the Dorian Wind Quintet in concert.