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Stories from the Street
From: With Good Reason
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Creating a dialogue with people who are homeless may be the first step to understanding how to help effect change.

Bought by KVSC, WSKG, and KGOU


  • Added: May 06, 2008
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Orli Shaham (In Mozart's Hand Prints)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Orli Shaham, Credit: Photo by Christian Steiner
Pianist Orli Shaham's most recent recording is an all-Mozart disc she made with her brother Gil. She's played Mozart all of her life, and fittingl...

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Rolf Smedvig (Mind Blowing Haydn)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Trumpet players thank their lucky stars every day for Telemann and Purcell. In their day, they added dozens of new works to the repertoire. When ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Point and Play)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Working without a conductor creates both creative and practical challenges for an orchestra: how do you get the music started? For the conductor-...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: :32
Virtuoso Voices - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (No Egos Allowed)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs without a conductor. We know they make it work, but how do they make it work? Long time Orpheus violinist ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Torture Chamber)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs without a conductor. They make all musical decisions as a group. In the business world, decision by consen...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: :25
Essay: The Community Garden Waiting List
From: Andi McDaniel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Funny, quirky essay about waiting for a garden plot in Berkeley, CA

  • Added: Apr 14, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
Passover: A Time to Crossover
From: Johanna Cooper
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Features w/artists of all stripes celebrating this holiday of freedom.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Radio Catskill, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Troy Public Radio, WNIJ and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:10
  • Purchases: 13
Why We Wear Baggy Pants
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A vox pop of teen points of view about baggy pants.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
Remembering Dr. King's Assassination
From: Philip Graitcer
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Seniors in Atlanta Remember Where They Were When King Died

Bought by WABE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 4
Virtuoso Voices - Marin Alsop (Now Arriving)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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You may have heard of Brahms' several attempts to write his first symphony as he struggled to come out from behind Beethoven's shadow. Conductor Ma...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: :22
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Starting Saint-Saens)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Getting started, whether you're writing a term paper, a novel or a piano concerto, can be tough. But you have to get off to a good start. That's ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :21
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Science Fiction Piano)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Piano Concerto No. 5 by Saint-Saens is known as the "Egyptian" Concerto, because it includes a melody from a song Saint-Saens heard while vacat...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Parisian Jewelry)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 begins quite dramatically with a thick, almost foggy texture. But, in the second movement, pianist Jean-Yves ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :19
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (Feminine Touch)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Vivaldi wrote his set of violin concertos, known as the "Four Seasons," for the orchestra at an all-girls school and orphanage. For violinist Sara...

Bought by WEKU


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (Flip Flopper)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Calling a political opponent a "flip-flopper" is one of the more frequently heard accusations heard on the campaign trail. While changing one's vi...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :22
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (Six Trillion Concertos)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The cynical judgment often leveled against Vivaldi is he wrote the same concerto 100 times. Vivaldi fans respond to that charge with varying degre...

Bought by WEKU


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Alamosa Salmonella/Water VIP Press Conference Sound Bytes Gov Ritter, etc.
From: Miles Eddy
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Alamosa has water advisory because of Salmonella Outbreak. Gov. Ritter, Senator Salazar and other VIPS hold Press Conference March 22, 2008 in Ala...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 07:08
Virtuoso Voices - Canadian Brass (2,000 Organists Agree)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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When you think of the Canadian Brass, what comes to mind? How about five players who play great and who really know how to have a fun time on stag...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: :18
Virtuoso Voices - Steven Isserlis (Cello Economics)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Ask any musician what makes their instrument special, and maybe better than any other instrument, and they almost always point to the same characte...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Steven Isserlis (Father Knows Best)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Bach Cello Suites are the cellist's Holy Grail. The exquisite nature of the music is both a source of inspiration and intimidation. Cellist S...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: :20
Virtuoso Voices - Emanuel Ax (Battling Brahms)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Although musicians, critics and academics set high benchmarks for performing, most have come to terms with the fact that no performance will ever b...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: :26
Seattle's Homeless Jungle
From: Adam Vaughn
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Many of Seattle's homeless choose to live in a notorious wooded area called the Jungle.

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
Owners of a Purple Heart
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: Bill Jones
Three Purple Heart recipients talk about how they earned their medals.

Bought by The Story, KUT, KRUA, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 4
Fundraising Voices: Produced Funders - Feel Great Mix
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
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For your Fundraising campaign, use this 29 second clip as a fundraising message during your classical music fundraising programming. This spot fea...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KHNS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUHF, WSKG and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 11

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