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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "Overtone Singing," a comprehensive tome that addresses the physics ...
- Added: May 06, 2023
- Length: 28:29
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about a new book in the "Decades" series that documents the band Faith No More and thei...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 27:59
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 02:00
Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 03:00
When lyrics have no meaning, singing becomes pure emotion.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 04:40
The no-clapping-between-movements rule in a classical concert was created for a bad reason. So we’re gonna kill it -- you and me and Emanuel Ax.
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 23:26
Years after dismissing it in college, an aging white music professor discovers that hip hop is where the real creative genius is happening in music...
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 21:45
The world seems intent on forcing us into ruts, routines and social roles. But if we're bold enough - with faith and abandon - free play and improv...
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 59:26
For centuries, our culture has justified human actions by pretending animals are unlike humans, because they act simply on instinct. Now science ha...
- Added: Jun 03, 2019
- Length: 59:30
Stories and music from the north woods on Stay Human. Joel Marion Kersting and Leonard Clark in the deer stand, Terry O'Brien tells the tale of O...
- Added: Nov 19, 2018
- Length: 57:51
Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
In this mostly musical piece, we settle down into the audience of nearly 200 supportive students and staff at the University Program Board's Fall 2...
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 28:16
Child prodigies need the chance to find themselves- the moment they become ‘spellbound’ because they have found the field their gift has been looki...
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 07:04
After more than 20 albums (including Live from the Big Top) and more than three decades of performing, this co-founder of the influential indie roo...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 59:21
- Purchases: 10
The Blue Canvas Orchestra and special guests open up the show in the first half followed by Jamaican and Australian musical group Nattali Rize & Notis
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 12
Tune in tonight as Tent Show host and author Michael Perry welcomes our very own Blue Canvas Orchestra in the first set followed by bluegrass outfi...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 59:19
- Purchases: 12
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2015
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2015
An illustrative profile of the Austin's Long Branch Inn weekly blues jam, coordinated by Harold McMillan of DiverseArts Culture Works.
- Added: Jul 12, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Heartfelt, energetic, and down home. Heralded by CMT Edge as "one of the most promising bands on the bluegrass scene," the music of the Nashville b...
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 9
This episode speaks to those of you who are just starting your journey of months, if not years, of practice and frustration in achieving the painfu...
Bought by WMOT
- Added: Apr 25, 2015
- Length: 12:17
- Purchases: 1
This episode is all about the etiquette of avoiding being that universally unpopular member of the audience known as the Jazz Bore.
Bought by WMOT
- Added: Apr 18, 2015
- Length: 14:04
- Purchases: 1
This episode (part II) is all about the etiquette of properly administrating and participating in a jazz gig.
Bought by WMOT
- Added: Apr 11, 2015
- Length: 17:46
- Purchases: 1
This weeks episode features friends from New Orleans ~ Preservation Hall Jazz Band with an opening set by our very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
This episode (part I) is all about the etiquette of properly administrating and participating in a jazz gig.
Bought by WMOT
- Added: Mar 28, 2015
- Length: 13:56
- Purchases: 1
This episode (part II) is all about the etiquette of attending and appreciating a jazz gig.
Bought by WMOT
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 12:16
- Purchases: 1
This episode (part I) is all about the etiquette of attending and appreciating a jazz gig.
Bought by WMOT
- Added: Mar 14, 2015
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 1
