Rosita Milesi was honored with the U.N. Refugee Agency's Nansen Award for 40 years of activism. The U.N. calls her a “formidable refugee champion.” And she has life lessons to share.

The German airline barred 128 Jewish passengers from their May 2022 connecting flight based on the alleged misconduct of a few. The U.S. government considers that discrimination; Lufthansa disagrees.

Walgreens says about a quarter of its stores are unprofitable. Big pharmacy chains are struggling with growing retail competition and lower prescription payouts.

Watch concerts from Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, Juanes, Danny Ocean and much, much more.

Ferenc Farkas, the Hungarian composer, lived from 1905 to 2000. He composed 700 works for orchestra, opera, ballet, musicals, operetta, choir, and films. He also wrote chamber music, sacred music, and wind-band music. Today’s edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion will feature an octet for two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns, the instrumentation of the harmoniemusik, the wind band popular from approximately 1775 to 1825. But the music sounds as though it comes from the late 1600s to early 1700s.

New contributor Brenda Wilkerson brings us a heartwarming story from her elementary school bus route that she drives every day.

John Philip Sousa said he wished he had written the march “Military Escort” by Henry Fillmore. And the sheet music for “Military Escort” even outsold the sheet music for the “Stars and Stripes Forever” for at least 4 years. Today’s edition off Brass, Reeds, and Percussion opens with “Military Escort” composed by the American circus-band composer Henry Fillmore. But you will also hear Darius Milhaud’s most famous composition arranged for wind ensemble, original classical wind-band music by Francois Joseph Gossec, and a wind-band arrangement of a big hit from 1922.

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