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Modern Notebook Winter Special 8: A Modern Notebook Christmas (Part 2)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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It is the holiday season, and we have a special Modern Notebook for you featuring contemporary works inspired by peace, light, and the Advent: join...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Modern Notebook Winter Special 7: A Modern Notebook Christmas (Part 1)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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On a special Modern Notebook for the holiday season, join host Tyler Kline as we enjoy a collection of contemporary works for voice that expands th...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Modern Notebook Winter Special 6: Music for the Winter Solstice (Part 2)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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Join host Tyler Kline for a celebration of the Winter Solstice on a special Modern Notebook. Listen for a work by Kitty Xiao titled “Solstice I,” p...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Modern Notebook Winter Special 5: Music for the Winter Solstice (Part 1)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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The Winter Solstice is upon us, and as we enter the longest nights of the year you’re invited to tune in to a special Modern Notebook with Tyler Kl...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Modern Notebook Winter Special 4: Music of Stars and the Night Sky (Hour 2)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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On a special Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, tune in for music that evokes the starlit, still nights of the winter season. Listen for Emma O’Hall...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Modern Notebook Winter Special 3: Music of Stars and the Night Sky (Hour 1)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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There is a certain stillness on a cold, clear night when the stars are shining brightly, that captures the feeling of the winter season. Join host ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Modern Notebook Winter Special 2: Music of Snow, Ice, and Cold (Hour 2)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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As the winter season approaches, we will dive into chilly music on a special Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, featuring works that evoke the colde...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Modern Notebook Winter Special 1: Music of Snow, Ice, and Cold (Hour 1)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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Weather phenomena, and especially winter weather, has provided inspiration to composers for centuries - and living composers being no exception. Jo...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Modern Notebook for October 29 - November 4, 2023
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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On this special edition of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: we’ll be getting a little spooky with a program right in time for Halloween! I’ll be s...

Bought by WDAV Classical Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), KECG and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 6
Modern Notebook Special: Halloween 2023
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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On this special edition of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: we’ll be getting a little spooky with a program right in time for Halloween! I’ll be s...

Bought by WRKF, WVTF, Morehead State Public Radio, WUFT, KECG and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 6
The Ballad of the Brown King
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Dr. Louise Toppin, a preeminent performer and scholar specializing in the concert repertoire of African American composers, presents the world prem...

Bought by KTEP, WUFT, WCQS, WWNO, WRKF and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 82
Modern Notebook Special: 200th Episode (sample/evergreen show)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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Tune in for a special edition of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, celebrating the 200th episode of the show! Tyler will be sharing lots of great m...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
Modern Notebook Special: Juneteenth 2023
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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A two-hour special celebrating contemporary music by living Black composers in America.

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WVIA


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 3
1963: A Man's Dream, A Nation's Nightmare
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Andrew Hill's Black Fire LP
An hour-long jazz special: It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 24
Ma Rainey-a Celebration of the Blues and African American Performance
From: Don McIver
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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
August Birthdays (Vol.2)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A second tour-de-force of songs recorded by bluegrass, jazz and related musicians who were born in the month of August.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 26
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'Terrestrial Paradise', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This program presents the living fables of renaissance writer Bartolomeo Scala. His emphasis on the exploration of human nature is refreshing.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 23
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Adoration Of The Mystic Lamb', Credit: van Eyck
This program is a 5 minute spoken word exploration of renaissance fables. Leon Battista Alberti is one of the four great authors presented in this ...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 22
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Garden Of Earthly Delights', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This program explores the fables of Bartolomeo Scala. He is one of the four great authors of renaissance fables explored in this series in 5 minute...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 8
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Mystical Nativity', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute program explores through the spoken word the fables of Bartolomeo Scala. Part of the 76 part series here on Public Radio Exchange, th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
A Latin Jazz Christmas Experience
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
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"Ho ho ho," A mixture of Mambo, Rhumba, Latin Jazz and fun in this blend of "Christmas Season" arrangements all in this musical presentation.

Bought by KSFR, KPSQ-LP, WNMU-FM, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WCVE and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:33
  • Purchases: 17
PE 1951
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Stuck with a hermit at Yuletide

Bought by KEOS, KSRQ, KWMR, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Soli Deo Gloria
From: Kate O'Connell
Caption: The organ loft at St. Anne's Church Fall River, Massachusetts
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
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Baroque Christmas in the New World
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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An hour-long program of early music, celebrating the holiday season with festive music from 17th- and 18th-century Mexico, Peru and Bolivia perform...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KWIT, High Plains Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNIJ and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13