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Merola 2013 participant Zanda Švede is a magnificent mezzo from Latvia. She has a calm, self-assured, friendly, no-nonsense mien, maintained even when she says something surprising.

Hear the BBC Proms' version of Gen. MacArthur's farewell: "The choir, the choir, the choir ..." in the intermission of the brilliant First Night at the Proms that opened the concert series on Friday.

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Crowden School publicist Jen Strauss may be somewhat biased, but

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The Los Angeles Philharmonic's classical season at the Hollywood Bowl opens tonight, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Mahler's Second Symphony ("Resurrection"), with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, soprano Kiera Duffy, and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. On Thursday, MTT conducts the Sibelius Violin Concerto, with Gil Shaham as soloist.