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To celebrate his 80<SUP>th</SUP> birthday, EMI is loading all of Mstislav Rostropovich's discography onto iTunes for download. That's 5000 tracks.

If, when listening to the music of John Coltrane, you've been asking yourself <I>what am I missing?</I>, <I>Traneumentary</I> will give you answers. It's a podcast series that interleaves commentary and Coltrane's music with interviews with collaborators like McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Cobb, contemporary musicians like Terence Blanchard and Jason Moran, and legendary producers Michael Cuscuna and Joel Dorn&mdash;not to mention the great man himself.

I told you baaaad things happened when you monkey around with sheep.

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Dear Stephen,

Why theater goers in Epidaurus could hear actors from 60m away.

As a sci-fi fan, I can assure you that this never ends well.

The story behind <I>The Raft of the Medusa</I>. Like the painting, it isn't pretty, but you can't look away.

We attended the New York Philharmonic Saturday, and, if the classical record industry is in trouble, classical music is still vibrantly alive. <I>Ionarts</I> gets it precisely right, Saturday's concert was about as balanced a program as I've ever heard and it was a meeting of equals.

Researching audio products not only involves listening, but these days can include a bit of web work. Is there an audio manufacturer's website you particularly like? Why?

On a recent tour of Manhattan, Aperion Audio's Win Jeanfreau and Lorraine Janeway took some time to lunch with <I>Stereophile</I>'s Stephen Mejias, Robert J. Reina, and me. Reina had just reviewed the $750/pair Aperion Intimus 533-T loudspeakers in the April <I>Stereophile</I>, so we assumed that would be the main topic of conversation. As far as Jeanfreau and Janeway were concerned, however, that was ancient history. They were excited about more recent developments and future plans.