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Simon Bolivar Quartet Live from Salzburg

Harald Hoffman/ Deutsche Grammophon courtesy Askonia Holts

Join us at 2PM for our weekly broadcast from Austria's Salzburg Festival. Today's artists are the Simon Bolivar Quartet - an internationally renowned product of "El Sistema," the Venezuelan charity that uses classical-music training to "rescue young people in extremely impoverished circumstances." On the program is Ravel's gentle String Quartet, Shostakovich's powerful Eighth Quartet, and more - including some encore Mozart from pianist Alfred Brendel.

Barney Sherman is a Senior Music Producer and Classical Music Host