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Caroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
Caption: Caroline Shaw, Credit: Piotr Redlinski
Caroline Shaw began her love affair with music at the age of two, when her mom started teaching her violin. Throughout her childhood, Caroline had ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media and KING FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 2
Donnacha Dennehy: Composing With Frequency
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
Caption: Donnacha Dennehy, Credit: Sophie Dennehy
Donnacha Dennehy is an Irish composer who thought he was going to study with spectral icon Gérard Grisey in Paris. When he showed up, however, it w...

Bought by WGTE Public Media and KING FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 2
Andrew Norman: Better Living Through Architecture
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
Caption: Andrew Norman, Credit: Opera Philadelphia
Andrew Norman was a well-feted kid composer, a precocious pre-adolescent who wrote works with grand, filmic gestures for his middle school orchestr...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KPCC, and KING FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 3
John Luther Adams: Bad Decisions and Finding Home
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
Caption: John Luther Adams, Credit: Evan Hurd / Cantaloupe Music
John Luther Adams made all of the wrong career decisions. He got kicked out of multiple high schools, went to the "wrong" college, never finished h...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
The BSO’s Andris Nelsons: Maestro of ‘Emotionality’
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Boston Symphony’s new maestro Andris Nelsons is a boisterous young athlete in an old man’s job – one of the rising 30-somethings in front of th...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
Battling the weight of history as a female conductor
From: Sarah Elzas
Series: Wo/men's work
Caption: Elizabeth Askren Brie conducts the Orchestre Colonne in 2010, Credit: Thomas Bartel
Conducting is a surprisingly male world. Elizabeth Askren Brie has fought sexism throughout her career.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Fusion music, 17th-century style
From: Sarah Elzas
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Music has been crossing continents for centuries. French ensemble Baroque Nomade explores the interaction between European Baroque music and the cu...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:38
Anne Akiko Meyers in The Green Room with Lara Downes
From: Lara Downes
Series: THE GREEN ROOM with Lara Downes
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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: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
A musician, going deaf, fights for a life in music
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Sandy Mix teaches piano to Diane Wilson., Credit: Rachel Wong
From the moment Sandy Mix wakes up in the morning, she is thinking about music. Over coffee, she plans the day’s lessons.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 2
Martin Woods on Challenges for Black Opera Singers
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Martin Woods talks to Audra Wilson about the challenges and the rewards of being a Black Operatic Baritone from the West Side of Chicago, and takin...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Green Room with Lara Downes: Pilot
From: Lara Downes
Series: THE GREEN ROOM with Lara Downes
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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: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 20:10
Beethoven Network Sample Hour
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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Beethoven Network provides one-hour modules of classical music, culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings. The service w...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, KTXK, KTEP, Northwest Public Broadcasting, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 59:40
  • Purchases: 6
The Media's Death-Of Industry
From: Stephen Provizer
Series: Cultural Curmudgeon
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So happy the media tells us what is "dead;" like jazz and classical music.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:48
African American Voices
From: Daniel Gilliam
Caption: Leontyne Price, Credit: Carl Van Vechten
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.

Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 45:00
  • Purchases: 10
Christmastime in New York: The Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine
From: WQXR
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The Choir of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine performs at the Medieval Sculpture Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a program that spa...

Bought by KRPS, KWAX, KRPS, WRR, KCME and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 103
Staccato Cello Fortress
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
Caption: Cello Fortress Logo, Credit: Joost van Dongen
Cello Fortress us a video game with four players playing against a live Cellist improvising notes to defend the fortress.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
The Mikie Show #61, Stephen
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us as we speak with concert pianist Stephen Cook. Along with being a wonderful player, he is bringing back the old-school piano recital (as Fr...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Classical Composers & Musicians of African Descent Vol. I
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges
This limited series of classical music will feature four composers of African descent and two musicians of African descent. On this program today...

Bought by KWAX, WNMU-FM, WMNR, 'The Sea', KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 53:05
  • Purchases: 7
The Peace Message in Classical Music (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Karl Jenkins, Credit: www.karljenkins.com
A music historian tells stories about how classical composers have been influenced by the threat of war and the hope for peace in their works. Mus...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
STAIRSTEPS Stories! VOL. 2 (Cubie Burke): The Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Cubie Burke (with Christina Johnson with the Dance Theatre of Harlem), Credit: http://www.dancephotolibrary.com/dance.php
The "FIVE STAIRSTEPS and CUBIE" was a family pop act who released hit records from 1968 to 1969 on both Curtom and Buddha Records. CUBIE BURKE was ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2011
  • Length: 48:54
Compact Discoveries 184: Jesus Guridi
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Fred Flaxman presents three tuneful pieces by this Spanish Basque composer: "Ten Basque Melodies for Orchestra," Basque Images for Choir and Orches...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
In Global Culture Space - Rana Dasgupta & Hung-Kuan Chen
From: Open Source
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We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
De lo Latino a lo Clásico (From Latino to Classic)
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Música clásica al alcance de la comunidad hispana. Bringing classical music to larinos.

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 28:04
  • Purchases: 1
Mediaeval Baebes
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: The Mediaeval Baebes, Credit: Hayley Madden
The allure is undeniable. Six talented, attractive women breathe renewed life into the rich texts of medieval songs and poetry with their haunting...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
From Thoreau's rural journal to the future of farming - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1

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