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Mala Emde plays Vera Brandes, the 18-year-old music promoter without whom Keith Jarrett's celebrated piano recording, ‘The Köln Concert,’ might not have happened.

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Max Richter is one of the few modern composers equally at home on Pitchfork’s Best New Music page and piped through some ...

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