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A.J. Srubas leads a group of great local fiddlers in a tribute to bluegrass fiddler, Kenny Baker. Baker served for many years as the fiddler in the...
- Added: Mar 10, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Mike Sawyer is on a mission to uncover the roots of Upper Midwest folk music and keep it alive for future generations.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 30:20
Using "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" film now out on Netflix, we look at how she influenced the blues with selections from her, Sterling Brown, Bessie...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 56:40
Synesthete Joyce Yang describes the colors of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 31 as she plays.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 02:37
In Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony No. 3, his intention was to shock his audience.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:13
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
En el apartamento de Ludwig van Beethoven se encontró una carta en un cajón secreto poco después de que el soltero de toda una vida muriera en 1827...
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 03:40
A letter was found in a secret drawer in Beethoven's apartment not long after the life-long bachelor died in 1827. It was a 10-page rough draft wri...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 02:57
- 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
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 2
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This episode of The Live Feed we go to Ed’s (no Name) Bar in Winona, MN, where Black Sheep Poetry teamed up with Treedome to present a night of mus...
- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 44:38
The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 3
For six decades, radio announcer and jazz enthusiast Leigh Kamman guided listeners on a musical journey through the sounds he loved: Jazz. KFAI pro...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Once or twice a month in the East Bay, violinists and bass-players, flautists and trumpeters -- gather to play orchestra music. But instead of a co...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 07:21
Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...
Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 11:16
- Purchases: 3
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 5
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 2
For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who conquered Nashville on her own terms.
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of May (5/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a keyboard player who was part of Texas music royalty
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of May (5/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texas singer who was as popular abroad as he is he...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:30
