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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 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
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
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
Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...

Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Music of Fantasia
From: Wind & Rhythm
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If you work at any of the Disney studios or theme parks, in any of their wide range of properties, you can say you work for the “Mouse.” In 1940 th...

Bought by WILL, KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...

Bought by WNMU-FM, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMOT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
NL 17-42: From Myth To Man: Thelonious Monk, Part 2, 10/9/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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We delve into the later years and music of the pianist's career with Monk biographer Robin D. G. Kelley.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
170914 The New Orleans to Los Angeles Music Connections of 1950s and 60s
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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After Fats Domino and Little Richard records completely changed the recording industry. New Orleans music was "gold" and the equivalent of the Cal...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:36:13
  • Purchases: 1