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Amber Khan worked as a producer on The Conversation for several years. She left to get her Masters of Fine Arts in London. We talked with her this morning about the mood of the city during this time of great change.

Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday at age 96 as the longest-serving monarch in British history. HPR’s Ian Capps, originally from London, spoke to The Conversation about being in the city for her coronation in 1953.

Ian Capps is creator and host of The Early Muse, a weekly program of Hawaiʻi Public Radio which has been on air continuously since December 2004. The program explores the development of Western Music over the 500 years from the 12th through the 17th centuries. He has been an active volunteer in HPR's Music Department since coming to the Islands in 2002.

There is a wonderful richness and variety in Western music before the year 1700. The Early Muse is a weekly program created for HPR in 2004 by music volunteer Ian Capps, who brings fresh programming to listeners each week. It explores the critical formative years of European music, from Medieval chant, song and dance, through the rich polyphony of the Renaissance and into the Baroque ‘revolution’ of the 17th century with its invention of the opera, oratorio and orchestral music as we know it today. Born in London, Ian has been performing early music since childhood, and during a career as ...