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Kate Molleson hears from the author, musician, and researcher Matt Brennan about his new book, \\u2018Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit\\u2019. We speak to the Scottish singer, songwriter, and composer, Karine Polwart, as she shares her ideas about music\\u2019s power to communicate in today\\u2019s world. As she embarks upon a project to share all thirty-six movements of Bach\\u2019s six Cello Suites during the coronavirus outbreak, Music Matters revisits a discussion with the cellist Alisia Weilerstein. And as artists the world over find new ways to continue communicating with their audiences, Kate speaks to the soprano Soraya Mafi, producer of Caf\\xe9 Oto, Fielding Hope, and conductor Ilan Volkov about their creative responses to our current reality.