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From a backstage corner of a concert hall in Austin, Texas, the Godmother of Soul performs hits from across the many chapters of her fabulous career.

Accompanist James Bailleu and Soprano Lise Davidsen. She performs arias and songs that brought her success around the world including selections from Wagner's "Tannhauser," Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos," Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" and Scandinavian songs by Sibelius and Grieg, from Oslo's Oscarshall Palace in Norway.

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: Lise Davidson In Concert

Stream or tune in Friday, May 28, 2021 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2

Mayor Todd Gloria and other city leaders break ground at Children's Park in downtown San Diego's Marina neighborhood, May 5, 2021.

Downtown Children's Park Improvement Project Getting Underway

Mayor Todd Gloria and Council President Pro Tem Stephen Whitburn were on hand Wednesday to kick off a major project to improve Children's Park in downtown San Diego's Marina neighborhood.

Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove asks a question to Nancy Farias, the newly appointed director of the California Employment Development Department, seen in video monitor, during a hearing of an Assembly budget subcommittee at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022.

Anti-unemployment fraud measures in California face scrutiny

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration wants to pay tens of millions of dollars this year to stop scammers from stealing unemployment benefits.

A sign saying "Now Renting" is draped across the front of a building in City Heights, Feb. 22, 2022.

City Heights residents, immigrants among most severely rent burdened in San Diego

A new study shows City Heights residents are facing some of the most severe rental burdens in the county.

This photo shows two carved standing stones at a remote Neolithic site in Jordan's eastern desert. A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists said Tuesday that it had found a roughly 9,000-year-old shrine.

Archaeologists find a 9,000-year-old shrine in the desert in Jordan

Researchers said the find "sheds an entire new light on the symbolism, artistic expression as well as spiritual culture of these hitherto unknown Neolithic populations."

The headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tenn., is seen on Dec. 7, 2011.

Southern Baptist leaders apologize to sex abuse survivor

A top Southern Baptist committee has publicly apologized and agreed to a confidential financial settlement with a sexual abuse survivor.

Taras Shevchenko (left) and Kateryna Pavlenko from the band Go_A sing exclusively in Ukrainian and represented Ukraine on the main stage in 2021 at Eurovision, the popular European song contest.

For Ukrainian musicians, rejecting Russia is a matter of national pride

Ukrainian musicians are turning away from Russia, and sometimes the Russian language, as they try to reassert their country's identity. Some who used to sing in Russian now only perform in Ukrainian.

Beekeeper Hello Medina displays a beehive frame outfitted with a GPS locater that will be installed in one of the beehives he rents out, in Woodland, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. As almond flowers start to bloom, beekeepers rent their hives out to farmers to pollinate California's most valuable crop, but with the blossoms come beehive thefts. Medina says last year he lost 282 hives estimated to be worth $100,000, and is now installing GPS-enabled sensors to help find the stolen hives.

Beekeepers turn to anti-theft technology as hive thefts rise

About a thousand beehives worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have been reported stolen across California in the past few weeks.

The Chicano Federation and the San Diego Loyal Soccer Club created a mural with a message of hope and unity at the Delta Apartments in Shelltown neighborhood of San Diego as part of a day of service on Cesar Chavez Day.

Chicano Federation And San Diego Loyal Honor Chavez With Mural

Organizers say the project in San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood carries the iconic labor leader’s message of community.

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