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Since the 1920’s Argentine and Uruguayan composers have been using tango as a tool for breaking the wall between popular and classical music. Tango...
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Binary bop begins the journey of spins and needles, drummer Stockton Helbing sounds pristine alongside veterans Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie. D...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and WYAP
- Added: Dec 15, 2015
- Length: 01:59:55
- Purchases: 5
Premiered at La Scala Theater in Milan in May of 1870 under the its Italian title of Il Guarany, this opera by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Go...
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Elbio welcomes friend and fellow Uruguayan Carlos Kalmar to our WFMT studio to talk about his orchestras and life as a conductor.
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Let’s pretend that you go to your local orchestra hall and instead of the usual concert menu, you get to listen to a 19th century overture by Braz...
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During the last century a huge number of Western composers took a direction that divorced them from their potential audiences and entrenched them i...
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The Newberry Consort has been focusing on Early music from Spain and New Spain (as present day Mexico was known when it was a part of the Spanish e...
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The sonata is a musical term in use for almost four centuries. Latin American composers have also cultivated this venerable form. Fiesta! features ...
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The anthems of most of the Latin American countries were composed in the 19th century under the influence of both recent war and Italian opera. The...
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Euzkadi, also known as the Basque country, represents one of the several ways of being a Spaniard or is it something else? It depends on whom you ...
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Argentine born and based in New York, Veronica Loiacono, is a soprano of amazing versatility who feels at home in the opera repertoire as well as i...
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The author of the very popular Huapango, considered as the second Mexican anthem, composed several symphonic, chamber pieces of great importance. F...
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“The Vision of the Vanquished” or “La voz de los vencidos”, a book by Mexican historian Miguel León Portilla was very instrumental in changing the ...
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Music from San Antonio to New Orleans as the "Gulf Coast Sound." Often coming from Huey Meaux's Crazy Cajun record label but there is a audio conn...
- Added: Sep 20, 2015
- Length: 02:50:03
- Purchases: 2
The first half of the 20th century saw the incredible popularity of an exclusively Spanish genre: the zarzuela. It can be defined, superficially, a...
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He helped develop the Folk Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts and he's been head of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Now, Dan Shee...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, KPVL, and WNJR
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Fiesta! pays a visit to giants of Chile’s musical history, such as Domingo Santa Cruz, Acario Cotapos, Carlos Isamitt and Alfonso Letelier.
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Throughout history, myths have been a popular source of inspiration. Ibero-American composers (that means from Spain, Portugal and Latin America),...
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A brief but sufficient alto sax solo by Charlie Bird Parker then the next generation of boppers Dexter Gordon. From the Moonlight in Vermont and S...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WYAP, WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KPVL and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 6
Throughout history some musicians have reached immense popularity just to be quickly forgotten, many times without a clear explanation. In other ca...
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Little Portugal, once one of the mightiest nations in the world, can boast of an amazing musical treasure. From the medieval period to the present,...
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Nature has inspired, and continues to inspire, composer from all cultures. Bolivian Alberto Villapando and Brazilian Almeida Prado have written gor...
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Canyengue is lunfardo (slang) from Rio de la Plata. The word comes from the African Ki-Kongo language and means “melting with the music.” It would...
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Few Spanish symphonies, if any, have found its place within the standard repertoire, a strange phenomenon, considering the richness and depth of th...
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