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Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Brahms is Humbling)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Violinist Gil Shaham is spending much of this year playing Brahms. Whether it's the Sonatas, the Violin Concerto or the Double Concerto, it's alwa...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 30, 2007
Length: :28
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Sunny Side Up)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Prokofiev's two Violin Sonatas, in music and mood, represent the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Violin Sonatas. The first is dark and even contains a ...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 29, 2007
Length: :18
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Fairy Tale)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

The First Violin Concerto by Prokofiev is not the traditional concerto where the soloist dominates the stage with long romantic melodies and show s...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: May 11, 2007
Length: :19
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Respect Your Vivaldi)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

At times, Vivaldi is the "Rodney Dangerfield of composers." He gets no respect from the many pundits and experts who say he wrote the same concert...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 11, 2007
Length: :25
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (The Big Picture)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

With concertos, it's completely natural to focus our attention on the soloist. But while it's important to hear the solo part, violinist Cho-Liang...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: :18
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Don't be Boring)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

When you've played a piece of music for 20 or 30 years, it's easy to fall into old habits and the old ways of doing things. Clarinetist Richard St...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: :26
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (Young & Fearless)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Overnight success does happen but it's more myth than reality. Violinist Sarah Chang made her debut when she was 8 years old. Her success that ev...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Mar 28, 2007
Length: :18
Purchases: 2

Interview with syndicated ("Dear Amy") advice columnist AMY DICKINSON

From: Tish Pearlman

AMY DICKINSON, author of the nationally syndicated "Dear Amy" advice column talks, with great humor, about her her life and work.

Added: Mar 13, 2007
Length: 28:00

Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Debussy the Tailor)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Yolanda Kondonassis talks about one of classical music's most nurturing and resonating relationships -- the one between French composer Claude Debu...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Mar 02, 2007
Length: :31
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Moon Theft)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Clair de Lune (Moonlight) is one of Claude Debussy's best known works, and it's the perfect introduction to the "Impressionist" school of compositi...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Mar 02, 2007
Length: :16
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (On A Lark)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Violinist Hilary Hahn has been playing the beautiful "Lark Ascending" Violin Concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams for most of her career -- some cons...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KZYX

Added: Mar 02, 2007
Length: :25
Purchases: 3

Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Laugh it Off)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

We all makes mistakes -- some just get noticed more than most, like when you're playing your violin on stage before an audience of thousands. Viol...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Mar 01, 2007
Length: :24
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Defines Percussion)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

When Evelyn Glennie tells people she plays percussion, they often assume she's the drummer in a Rock band. But since there are literally thousands...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Mar 01, 2007
Length: :32
Purchases: 2

Livey's Digital Diary from Namibia: One Young Woman's Response to AIDS

From: UNICEF

This Story is free! It gives a youth perspective on the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Africa, from a young woman who is infected herself, and interview...

Bought by WXLV-FM

Added: Feb 11, 2007
Length: 04:23
Purchases: 1

Locally Grown Food Sprouts in Restaurants

From: The Environment Report

Chef is encouraging farmers to grow local food for new trend in restaurants.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 29, 2007
Length: 04:29
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Not About Me)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

The piano part has the most notes -- thousands -- but it's a cello sonata. Pianist Orion Weiss talks about his need to play second fiddle to the ce...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU

Added: Jan 01, 2007
Length: :20
Purchases: 3

Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weis (Deep Massenet)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

The "Meditation" from the Opera, "Thais", is the only moment we know from this all but forgotten opera by Jules Massenet. Today, the "Meditation" ...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU

Added: Jan 01, 2007
Length: :23
Purchases: 3

Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Yes Dear)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Getting accepted as a student at a prestigious music school is a grueling and highly competitive process. At Indiana University, Piano Professor (...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Dec 29, 2006
Length: :30
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Just Friends)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Two friends, both musicians, team up to play a romantic moment by Beethoven and Mozart. Even though, they're "just friends", cellist Julie Albers ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Dec 28, 2006
Length: :20
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Cello on Fire)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Pianist Orion Weiss joins cellist Julie Albers for a performance of "Variations on a Paganini Theme" by Piatigorsky. It's a virtuosic showstopper f...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Dec 28, 2006
Length: :18
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Citizenship 101)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

JoAnn Falletta is the conductor of the Virginia Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Although she is a frequent guest conductor around...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Dec 27, 2006
Length: :23
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (You're Fired!)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Conductor JoAnn Falletta talks about the mostly positive changes that have taken place in the classical music, particularly the new face and image ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: Dec 25, 2006
Length: :39
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Copland's Jazz Blessing)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman calls composer Aaron Copland on the phone to ask his permission to bring a more jazz-like sensibility to the composer...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media