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Almanac: Cole Porter

On June 9th, 1891, the Broadway composer of such hits as “Kiss Me, Kate” and “Anything Goes” was born in Peru, Indiana Source

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The “Wow!” concert

It was an unusual outburst for a classical music concert: an audience member shouted out “Wow!” at the very end of Mozart’s “Masonic Funeral Music,” performed by the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. The group’s president and CEO, David Snead, was determined to find out who had broken audience protocol in such a forthright way. The answer to his query proved very surprising, as Steve Hartman discovered. Source

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Broadway star Andrew Rannells

It’s been seven years since Andrew Rannells left the hit Broadway show, “The Book of Mormon,” for which he earned his first Tony Award nomination. He has since starred in several TV series, and authored a memoir, “Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood.” Faith Salie talked with Rannells about how he found the spotlight. Source

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Passage: Dr. John

Musician and songwriter Malcolm John Rebennack Jr, known by his stage name Dr. John, mixed blues, jazz, rock, and faux voodoo in a musical gumbo all his own. Mo Rocca reports on the passing of a true son of New Orleans. Source

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