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In the online eye of Hurricane Ike

Eric Berger, the "SciGuy" at the Houston Chronicle just concluded a virtuoso one-and-a-half hour live chat with Chron readers handling any and all questions about Hurricane Ike, which looks to be just about a few hours away from giving Galveston, Texas a disastrous pummeling.

Opera sparks should fly

There can be few performers in the opera world who generate as much excitement as Juan Diego Flórez, the 35-year-old Peruvian tenor whose dazzling combination of matinée idol charm and virtuoso technique brought him to prominence when he sang the role of the misguided misogynist Corradino in Rossini's rarely heard Matilde di Shabran at the Pesaro Festival in 1996.

Hot ticket: Juan Diego Flrez in 'Matilde di Shabran'

There can be few performers in the opera world who generate as much excitement as Juan Diego Flórez, the 35-year-old Peruvian tenor whose dazzling combination of matinée idol charm and virtuoso technique brought him to prominence when he sang the role of the misguided misogynist Corradino in Rossini's rarely heard Matilde di Shabran at the Pesaro Festival in 1996.

Download - The Music Show

The Music Show broadcasts live, direct from The Spiegeltent and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Talking and performing guests include Festival headliner singer, poet and artist Patti Smith; director of the Schoenberg Ensemble Reinbert de Leeuw; composers Liza Lim and Nigel Westlake, sitar player Kartik Seshadri, recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacy, guitarists Slava & Leonard Grigoryan, and composer and multi-instrumentalist Phillip Johnston. This week's podcast segment is Patti Smith.

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