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Beautiful Music NOW - pianist Lara Downes and composer Dobrinka Tabakova

Today's Beautiful Music features two dynamos -- pianist Lara Downes and composer Dobrinka Tabakova. The American classical pianist is also the creator and host of the NPR Music series AMPLIFY, a prolific recording artist, and a sought-after collaborator. The Bulgarian composer was born in 1980, and at the tender age of 14 she won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna. This is Lara Downes playing Dobrinka Tabakova's 2020 composition, SIMPLE PRAYER FOR COMPLEX TIMES.

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.