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Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Majority Rules)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Menahem Pressler
Playing chamber music is like any relationship. You give, you take, you listen and you compromise. As one of the preeminent chamber musicians of ...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Reinvented the Wheel)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Menahem Pressler
The Beaux Arts Trio was widely recognized for consistently reaching and upholding the highest musical standards. But there were times when they di...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Lynn Harrell (The French Manner)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Lynn Harrell, Credit: Christian Steiner
The impressionist movement in music began in France during the late nineteenth century. Composers like Debussy rebelled against what they consider...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Lynn Harrell (Vocal Contender)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Lynn Harrell, Credit: Christian Steiner
While most musicians genuinely believe their instrument is the closest sounding to the human voice, cellist Lynn Harrell makes a pretty convincing ...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Lynn Harrell (War in Piece)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Lynn Harrell, Credit: Christian Steiner
Cellist Lynn Harrell has played the Dvorak Cello Concerto throughout his career, and it's a work he continues to study. Before the cello's first e...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Danielle de Niese (No Crying in Opera)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Danielle de Niese, Credit: hansspeekenbrink-nl
Opera singers today are being asked to do more, and are expected to do more on the operatic stage – especially when it comes to showing their actin...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Danielle de Niese (Song and Dance)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Danielle de Niese, Credit: hansspeekenbrink-nl
The career of soprano Danielle de Niese really took off when she performed the role of Cleopatra in the Handel opera, Julius Caesar. Her operatic ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Lynn Harrell (Pass the Soup)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Lynn Harrell, Credit: Christian Steiner
Beethoven was one of the first composers to demonstrate the cello's wide range of expressive capabilities. But there was one characteristic Beetho...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Fresh Daily)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Menahem Pressler
How do you keep the music you’ve played hundreds of times fresh for the next audience? That's the age old question for all musicians. Pianist Men...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
The Journey to Health Care Reform
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
Caption: Health Care bill signing
Why passing the bill was so important.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 28:22
  • Purchases: 1
Schwobians
From: Koji Mori
Caption: Schwob School of Music, Credit: Columbus State University
The Music Major Life...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2010
  • Length: 03:37
Inaugural Whites 100 Challenges Athletes in Remote Alaska
From: Emily Schwing
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38 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, the first ever 100 mile wilderness adventure race in the White Mountains National Recreation Area tested athle...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 05:35
Celtic Band McInnis' Kitchen Performing Live on Centerstage MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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A live recording of McInnis' Kitchen recorded in October of 2008 in the KAXE Studios. From Duluth, they perform Celtic music from Ireland, Newfound...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 16:32
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (My Two Cents)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Hilary Hahn
Violinist Hilary Hahn has been playing Bach throughout her career, and her most recent recording is an all-Bach CD. She says you can find many sid...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :20
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (The Set Up)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Hilary Hahn
Violinist Hilary Hahn's "Voices and Violin" CD offers mostly sacred arias by Bach that include a prominent role for the violin. At times, she conv...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Zuill Bailey (Bach’s Free Start)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa Marie Mazzucco
(March 21st is Bach's birthday.) There are many ways to celebrate Bach musically. If you're a cellist, you probably thank your lucky stars every ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :27
Virtuoso Voices - Till Fellner (That's My Job)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Till Fellner
Bach's short keyboard works are just that: short. You have to find the musical character quickly, otherwise the piece is over. When pianist Till...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :19
Crazy Heart Author Thomas Cobb Not The Weary Kind With Novel In Spotlight
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: Crazy Heart author Thomas Cobb is a professor at Rhode Island College., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
With Crazy Heart winning Academy Awards for best actor and best original song, Rhode Island author Thomas Cobb says the seeds of his book were pla...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
Camino al Exito
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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The road to college

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 28:09
BWNR Episode 35
From: BengalsWorld News Radio
Series: BengalsWorld News Radio
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Cincinnati Bengals talk. NFL talk. Sports talk.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2010
  • Length: 41:46
Get Noticed Get Counted
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Why is it important for the Hispanic community to participate in the 2010 Census

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Tonight Show Audience)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Hilary Hahn
Violinist Hilary Hahn once performed on the Tonight Show and her appearance just happened to coincide with the late night show's little hosting dra...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: :40
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Tonight Show Biz)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Hilary Hahn
Violinist Hilary Hahn performed on the Tonight Show in March 2010. Her strategy for playing in front of a huge audience of 100's of thousands is to...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: :37
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (5-4-3-2-GO!)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Hilary Hahn
Violinist Hilary Hahn performed on the Tonight Show in March 2010. The late night show had been in the news lately with a little hosting drama. D...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Manuel Barrueco (Conversing with Domingo)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Manuel Barrueco, Credit: Photo by EMI-David Thompson
When guitarist Manuel Barrueco teamed up with conductor and tenor Placido Domingo to record the famous guitar concertos by Rodrigo, along with some...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 1

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