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• John Mayer: Restoring An Image, And An Instrument
  Two years after a media controversy that sent him retreating from the spotlight, Mayer has a new album and is beginning to resurface. But a new obstacle has arisen in the meantime — a health condition that may keep him from performing for months to come.
  
  
• Journey Through Musical Time With This App
  The "Radio Time Machine" is an online application that has collected the top 20 Billboard hits back to 1940. Some transcend their time period, while the appeal of others may be harder to understand. Host Scott Simon speaks with Brett Westervelt, a grad student at Stanford University and the designer of the app.
  
  
• Idina Menzel: From Broadway To The Symphony
  The star of Rent and Wicked is making standards and pop songs her own — with the help of symphonies around the country.
  
  
• Baritone Fischer-Diskau Was One Of Opera's Greatest
  German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died — he was 86. Fischer-Dieskau began performing in the 1940s and had a career spanning five decades. He was perhaps best known for his interpretation of Franz Schubert's "Winterreise."
  
  
• Around The Jazz Internet: May 18, 2012
  Ten albums for newbies, the hated Cabaret Card and composer/arranger Gil Evans' centennial.
  
  

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