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The music of Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Alice Coltrane, Nina Simone and other jazz artists in a turbulent year of change.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:05
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If you’ve spent any time in the early European wing at your local art museum, you might have noticed just how musical religious art can be. This we...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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This week on Harmonia, we’re visiting The Museum of Renaissance Music, or at least, listening to it. Editors Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard cu...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Riverside Jazz Quartet, Credit: Connor Hilstrom
The Riverside Quartet features original Jazz. The drummer, Nicholas Peterson, leads the group, and composes a lot of the group’s repertoire. When h...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Riverside Jazz Quartet, Credit: Connor Hilstrom
The Riverside Quartet features original music. The drummer, Nicholas Peterson, leads the group, and composes a lot of the group’s repertoire. When ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
Caption: SWHS Jazz Band, Credit: Sara Johnson
The Southwest High School of Minneapolis showcases its Jazz Big Band and Jazz Combos, Thursday June first at the school. The show features not only...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, we hear Gustav Mahler’s fourth symphony; Samuel Barber’s dramatic song for soprano and orchest...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:30
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On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, Annie Wu is the soloist in Kevin Puts’ secretly double commissioned Flute Concerto; Mozart’s f...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:30
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On this week’s broadcast of the California Symphony, Music Director Donato Cabrera leads the orchestra in Kevin Puts’ energetic piece' Network'; Mo...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:30
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On this week’s premiere broadcast of the California Symphony, Music Director Donato Cabrera leads the orchestra through a transcendental journey in...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Part 2 of 2 spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks about the late singer/so...

Bought by KUHF and KSJE


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Hugh Hefner was best known as the founder of Playboy Magazine, but in the early days of his media empire he often showcased jazz performers and spo...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: John Leventhal
Today on the Music Archive Showcase, the first of a two part visit with top record producer and musician JOHN LEVENTHAL, who’s had a guiding hand i...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, and KSJE


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The third in a series of programs that features interviews and music with some of the top names in Americana music over the last 20 years who, in 2...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Corpse Reviver, Credit: Pete Lee
This Sunday at 7 at the Hook and ladder in Minneapolis, Corpse Reviver plays songs from The Harry Smith Collection of American folk music. The coll...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Hoaxer, Credit: Lee Tran
The guys from Hoaxer have reconvened after another period of study in locations across the continent. They are bassist Charlie Lincoln, drummer Edm...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jack Brass Band, Credit: Jackson Tyler Eddy
The Jack Brass Band plays with the kind of interplay of instruments that has been part of New Orleans Jazz for a hundred years or more. But there’s...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Matthew Mehaffey with Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Connie Shaver
The Oratorio Society of Minnesota exists to dynamic and diverse choral music performed with skill and passion. On April 13 at St mark’s Episcopal C...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 07:58
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Poetry about sleep and dreams, actual and metaphorical.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:57