This Is The End

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Hollywood is depicting the end of the world in recent movies like 2012 and The Road. Today: the sound of doomsday, according to history's songwriters and composers. Later: violinist Rachel Barton Pine joined the doom-metal band Earthen Grave earlier this year. This genre-bending classical musician joins us with the chamber music group Trio Settecento.

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