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Bach’s Easter Oratorio is considerably shorter than some of his similar works, and it’s also considerably less familiar.On this Sunday’s program, we’ll have a performance of this curious work that combines some of Bach’s most festive music with episodes of pathos that seem contradictory at first glance, but maybe not so much on reflection.

English composer Frederick Delius’s story is far from unique. He wanted to devote his life to music; his father wanted him to pursue the family business. It didn’t make a businessman out of him, but it did giive hm the material to write a Florida Suite, and we’ll hear it on this week’s program.

Fifteen years after the president’s trip, minimalist composer John Adams’s opera Nixon in China looked back upon the events of 1972, and we’ll hear what what he was able to capture about the spirit of that week in February on this Sunday’s program.

American composer William Bolcom devoted 25 years to setting William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience as a song cycle, which required the musical resources of the University of Michigan to perform, and will require nearly an entire program of Mozart’s Attic to present.

In 1723, J.S. Bach, the newly-hired Kappelmeister at St. Thomas’s in Leipzig had an early opportunity to show his stuff with a setting of the Magnificat. Bach brought in the trumpets and the kettle drums for a festive spectacular performance, and we’ll hear what must have made an impression on the staid Burgomeisters with a festive performance of our own this Sunday.

In 1937, Stalin was none too happy with Dmitri Shostakovich. Indeed, Shostakovich's next symphony might be a matter of life and death. We're up to 1937 in our cycle of his symphonies in the context of their times, and this week we'll hear the symphony that may have saved his life.

Vladimir Ashkenazy is both soloist and conductor in a performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto this Sunday. Then we check in on Dmitri Shostakovich as he continues in his symphonic cavalcade of 20th-century world events.

Yes, the U.S. does have the highest corporate tax rate ... but that doesn't mean businesses always pay it.

Hillary Clinton has the edge. She has to win just the states leaning in her direction to get enough electoral votes to be president. But Donald Trump has a path, albeit a narrow one.

background:white">Bill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at Dallas NPR station KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues. He’s won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.