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Most people now associate the words "classical music" so strongly with the past that it is easy to forget that composers are still writing music for those traditional vehicles of art music -- opera, symphony, chamber ensembles. Soprano Dawn Upshaw urges us regularly not to forget this very fact, by lending her radiant voice to so many new compositions. Indeed, she has become the muse of many contemporary composers, the favored midwife at numerous musical...