PRX - Pieces for Format: Special
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
A tribute to Harry Belafonte with music from his incredible career mixed with his own thoughts about his life and work
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 01:58:01
A celebration of composer Stephen Sondheim with interviews, music and performances from his entire career
Bought by KGLT
- Added: Dec 02, 2021
- Length: 56:57
- Purchases: 1
Join us for a celebration of Bob Dylan's Birthday with Bob Fass, Big Joe Turner, Al Kooper, Les Crane, The Band, Richard Ashcroft, John Hammond, Em...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 01:58:06
- Purchases: 1
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime championing her two passions: equal rights and classical music, often referencing the si...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KWAX, Hawaii Public Radio, WWFM, WKNO and more
- Added: Mar 12, 2021
- Length: 01:58:30
- Purchases: 23
From the trenches of The Great War, Alan Seeger's poems, letters and diaries spring to life in the voices of Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine...
Bought by KRBD, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS, WNMU-FM, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 50
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime championing her two passions: equal rights and classical music, often referencing the si...
Bought by WABE, KTEP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more
- Added: Feb 05, 2021
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 19
In this piece we hear the process of musicians and scientists who collaborated to turn deep sea research into a song. Produced in Woods Hole, MA, ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 11:46
A short tribute to the late Prince of Broadway with music from many of the shows he produced and directed with interview clips and memories of a tr...
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 29:15
Soulful mix for one of best singers ever---Aretha Franklin
- Added: Aug 16, 2018
- Length: 59:16
- Purchases: 2
A thirty minute tribute to one of the founders of rock & roll- Antoine "Fats" Domino, featuring some of his classic recordings, interviews and actu...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 28:52
Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 11:40
As far back as the 1920s, jazz bands were performing music that had hidden messages inside their songs. Messages that asked their audience to pled...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 49:30
- Purchases: 1
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Among the many names adopted for the clarinet during the early years of jazz, the “noodle” is possible the most catchy. Feature are Johnny Dodds, B...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Aug 28, 2012
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 1
The dynamic duo work of cornet Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer was one of the greatest in early jazz. Their first recording dates...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 58:53
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 58:52
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 58:01
The StudioTalk presents Ranajit Sengupta, a sarod player from Kolkata (India), film composer, lecturer for Indian Classical Music, working on resea...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 58:01
Adrian Rollini was a renaissance man of jazz. Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, he created new ways of performing on existing instruments, inv...
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 59:00
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 03:16
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 05:24
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 03:53
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 03:44