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This program is 5 minutes in length, and is part of the 76 episode series on PRX that explores renaissance fables.
- Added: May 16, 2020
- Length: 05:00
This program is a spoken word rendition of renaissance fables with appropriate music. It is 5 minutes in length.
- Added: May 16, 2020
- Length: 05:00
This 5 minute spoken word program highlights some of the renaissance fables of the prolific Bartolomeo Scala.
- Added: May 16, 2020
- Length: 05:00
The apologues or fables of Leon Battista Alberti are numerous and entertaining. This program, for 5 minutes, explores one of the greatest authors o...
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 05:00
This 5 minute program is a spoken word presentation of renaissance fables written by Bartolomeo Scala.
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 05:00
A little levity from talented and inventive musicians can go a long way to putting some pep in your step. Fats Waller could hardly keep from adding...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 59:00
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You might say he didn’t take his music seriously. On the other hand, bandleader and clarinetist Ted Lewis is one of the best known performers of th...
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- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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In 1925, pianist Joel Shaw became vast friends with bandleader Gene Kardos. They clicked. Their style had elements of jazz, society dance band and ...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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Looking through old photos elicits a myriad of feelings.
- Added: Mar 10, 2019
- Length: 59:21
An alternative take on Valentine's Day.
- Added: Feb 09, 2019
- Length: 54:03
During prohibition train fare to Canada was considerably cheaper than dealing with the mob syndicate that controlled liquor distribution. Not only ...
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
In the latter 1920s the art of crooning became very popular. Male vocalists began performing their songs in a romantic, intimate, just-for-you styl...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
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One of American music's original crossover kings, his music transformed a city and an industry forever.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 18:45
Poets and troubadours have been writing and singing about it for centuries. The music of the 1920s is no different. This program features a selecti...
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- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
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Cloaked in mythology by the age of 40, this original hero of the Wild West embodied the term "living legend." So why have we forgotten him?
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 17:16
Since there were no rules about where jazz fit into the scheme of popular music in the 1920s, every imaginable fell into the grand experiment. Basi...
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- Added: Sep 28, 2017
- Length: 59:00
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He was known as "The Titan of the Tuba," and by any measure he was beyond the standard rhythm section player.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 59:00
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The dawn of the 20th century ushered in an era of innovation never seen before. By the 1920s it seemed that everything and everyone was in motion.
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- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 59:00
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There is a myriad of possible themes in musical circles, but among the most common is the love theme. Finding love, being in love, or losing love. ...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
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The Alley of Song and America’s popular music of the 1920s, jazz, crossed over in 1917. It wasn’t long before musicians began to revive compositi...
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- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 59:00
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When there's a movie chase scene, more often than not, the accompanying music is jazz.
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- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 59:00
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In 1946 Milton Mezzrow, otherwise known as Mezz, wrote a tell all book about his experiences with jazz in the 1920s and '30s.
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- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 59:00
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The spontaneous enthusiasm of jazz brought exuberance to the dance floor in the 1920s.
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- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 58:59
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- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
