[@ 5 min] This week…we are halfway through the Major League Baseball season! Which means it's time for us to swap some Trading Cards: American Composer Edition. And there are so many! Copland! Gershwin! Floyd!...(slowing) uh…Dominick Argento… (stammering) uh … Philip Glass? Plus, George sends us another postcard from abroad! What iconic Italian opera house will he call B-tier this time?

[@ 47 min] Then…we go Inside the Huddle with Sir Emanuele Andrizzi. The Italian conductor, recently bestowed the rank of Officer of the Knights of the Order of the Star of Italy, is betting on Gian Carlo Menotti as he is set to conduct the Medium for Opera Festival of Chicago.

[@ 1h 5 min] Certain artists from a certain country are not having a good news cycle.

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