A Prairie Home Companion for November 28, 2015

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This week: it's back to The Town Hall in New York City for the first of three consecutive live broadcasts from West 43rd Street. Our post-Thanksgiving spread includes phenomenal pianist and classical music ambassador Jeremy Denk, whose ease and virtuosity makes you wish you'd have stuck with your own lessons a bit longer. And from Baltimore, the girls' quartet GQ joins us with their precise a capella harmonies that delight everyone within earshot and the microphones and speakers, too. Plus YouTube sensation Melanie Torres makes her radio debut with a menagerie of vocal animal sounds, some set to music. And there's the cornucopia of scripts (a word allowed only once a year) featuring our Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Fred Newman - and who knows, maybe a celebrity or two will drop by in the big city. Pianist and music director Rich Dworsky presents "Falling Together," an original composition, backed by The November Boys - the best band in radio - (drummer Bernie Dresel, bassist Larry Kohut, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, and Chris Siebold on guitar), and the host has all the latest News from Lake Wobegon, where the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. We'll see you on the radio Saturday evening.

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