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This week on the show: Where do nature and art meet? From the vast majesty of the Antarctic to the neat symmetry of a beehive, environmentally-mi...
Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas
- Added: Aug 19, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
This week on the show: Breaking Free: New Starts and Big Ideas -
How Freddie Mercury inspired youth behind the iron curtain: Meet African climat...
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KWIT
- Added: Jul 29, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show: The urgency to unblock Ukraine’s grain exports. Turkey and Poland step up efforts to stave off global food insecurity. Can ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show: Despite all odds -
We take you along to listen to a musical genre called AmaPiano that emerged in South Africa's towns...
- Added: Nov 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Equality is not a feeling -
In the spirit of International Women’s Day, we're looking at women’s rights across the glob...
- Added: Mar 05, 2020
- Length: 29:59
This week on the show: Sometimes it gets dark before it gets light -
Want to feel joy? Listen to death metal, says a surprising new study. Also o...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Izzy Young ran The Folklore Center in New York's Greenwich Village for decades and produced Bob Dylan's first public concert in 1961. Young died M...
- Added: Feb 06, 2019
- Length: 04:44
This week on the show: Remember December? -
It may just be the "Most wonderful time of the year," but Christmas shopping can act like cocaine on ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Nov 28, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
John Gorka's brother Cass had just taught John how to play a few chords when John Gorka began creating his own songs. Hanging around infamous coffe...
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Dakota Dave Hull is a world class guitar player that has been a fixture nationally, and in Minnesota going as far back as Minnesota has been able t...
- Added: Feb 03, 2014
- Length: 54:33
- Purchases: 2
Despidiendo el año con la buena música de Banda Alternativa.
Closing the year with the good music of Banda Alternativa.
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:05
It started a few years ago; two legendary choral groups got together to do one of the things they do best: Christmas music. The union of the six ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: :25
Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah,” despite its title, does not necessarily offer a religious point of view. The song includes one section with a s...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: :25
When something has been around for a while and has become extremely popular, it can be easy to take it for granted. The Violin Concerto by Max Bru...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: :18
Some consider the Violin Concerto by American composer Samuel Barber to be the quintessential American violin concerto. Violinist James Ehnes says...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: :19
Music is about relationships between the performer and the audience and also between individual instruments. One of music’s most satisfying relati...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: :23
A regular part of Misha Dichter’s performance schedule includes playing music for two pianos with his wife, Cipa Dichter. The two practically grew...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :23
How fast should Beethoven be played? Pianist Misha Dichter usually believes in following the composer’s instructions. But with Beethoven he’s not...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :24
Composer Domenico Scarlatti was Italian, but when pianist Yuja Wang plays his Sonata in E Major, she sees Spain. Use this 23 second clip to introdu...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
Saint-Saens wrote the Piano Concerto No. 5 while on vacation in Egypt. He incorporated an ancient Egyptian melody within the music, and evokes a M...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :26
You can take the Frenchman out of France, but you can never take the “French” out of the Frenchman – at least not with pianist Pascal Rogé. And wh...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :24
Debussy gave one of his best know piano preludes the subtitle, “Veils.” With all due respect, pianist Pascal Rogé says he doesn’t necessarily take...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :25
You’ve probably seen several, if not dozens of paintings by the Dutch painter, Vincent Gogh. But have you ever looked at a Van Gogh close up – rea...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :26
Cellists thank their lucky stars for the wide range of music written for their instrument. The cello is often the composer’s voice for a variety o...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :24
Sarasate’s Ziguenerweisen – or “Gypsy Airs” – is a work that is often played with an extroverted romantic passion. On his most recent recording of...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :24
