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While ax throwing was historically reserved for frontiersmen and lumberjacks, it is becoming a popular recreational activity, thanks to spaces like...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 04:29
Since February, Yankees Stadium has been used as a sit for Covid vaccinations. Today though, it returns to its former use: baseball. Nicole McNulty...
- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 03:09
Synesthete Joyce Yang describes the colors of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 31 as she plays.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 02:37
He wanted larger and louder. The stage was set for Beethoven, but being on the cusp of change had its challenges.
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 1
Cómo Ludwig van Beethoven proyectó una gran sombra sobre Haydn y Brahms, dos gigantes de la música que vinieron antes y después de él.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:14
Beethoven’s teacher, Franz Josef Haydn, was eclipsed by the genius of his young student. Later, a young Johannes Brahms spent decades writing his f...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
A Ruth Bader Ginsberg le encantaba la única ópera de Ludwig van Beethoven.
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 03:38
Beethoven wrote one opera, Fidelio. A 2003 production so captivated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she wrote a letter to the director.
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 03:11
Scottish multi-percussionist Evelyn Glennie has been profoundly deaf since she was 12 years old. We asked her how someone who is deaf can "hear" wi...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
La multipercusionista escocesa Evelyn Glennie ha estado completamente sorda desde los 12 años. Compartió con CPR Classical cómo una persona sorda p...
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 03:07
Long-time mushroom enthusiast Andre Kohler takes us on a foraging trip through the Santa Monica mountains.
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 02:28
One musical theatre major reflects on the support of her family, and how things have changed for her since COVID-19.
- Added: May 25, 2020
- Length: 09:02
Norwegian artist Jana Winderen records sounds above and below the surface of our blue planet to compose site-specific sonic environments. For four ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 23:27
In Hong Kong Mixtape II, guest producer Him Cheung of Contemporary Musking Hong Kong introduces sound art projects that respond to volatile current...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 34:43
Today, we take you back to the month of April, in the year 2012. That’s when we set out on a road trip from Austin, Texas. We’re aiming to find out...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and Morton College Radio
- Added: Aug 12, 2019
- Length: 01:03:29
- Purchases: 2
NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 8
Checkers Barker has obsessed over drums and drumming for more than 50 years. In one year – 1979 – he founded a music shop, joined a successful cove...
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 03:17
For decades, Israeli radio stations ignored Mizrahi tunes and exclusively played music rooted in Ashkenazi traditions. That began to change in the ...
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 21:07
The story of a song that began the music careers of two Israelis each representing vastly different versions of what the future of Israel may hold
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 32:43
Today, we invite artists, curators, a media specialist, and an invigilator to share some of the stories behind challenging new work. They reveal ho...
- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 01:00:39
Some kids dream of going to the moon or playing for the Yankees. Ariel Harpaz had a seemingly more attainable goal in mind: to get his picture up o...
- Added: Jul 18, 2018
- Length: 20:49
On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 3
Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 04:40
As Jews around the globe celebrate Passover to commemorate the exodus from slavery in Egypt, a community chorus in Los Angeles is keeping alive the...
Bought by KZYX, KUER, Prairie Public, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 26, 2017
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 4
The sounds of: Water; Guana Tolomato River; saltwater; September 2016; Warm; 80 degrees.
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 01:01
