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Every Monday morning at 9:15, I join John Birge on Classical MPR to talk about stories we're featuring on our website. Due to the holiday, this week we're talking on Tuesday, and here are the stories we'll be discussing.
The 2015 Academy Award nominations were announced last week, and though we don't yet know who the Oscar will go to, we know who won the race for Best Original Score: French composer Alexandre Desplat, who garnered two of the five nominations for his Grand Budapest Hotel and Imitation Game scores. Another nominee was Hans Zimmer's Interstellar score, which has been at the center of a controversy involving the film's sound mix.
The 2015 Opera Award nominations were also announced last week, with Joyce DiDonato and the English National Opera each nabbing multiple nods.
Finally, Courtney Algeo wrote about a musical Baby Einstein toy that her young son loves — though she's had a surprising amount of difficulty in naming those tunes.
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