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Music from San Antonio to New Orleans as the "Gulf Coast Sound." Often coming from Huey Meaux's Crazy Cajun record label but there is a audio conn...
- Added: Sep 20, 2015
- Length: 02:50:03
- Purchases: 2
The first half of the 20th century saw the incredible popularity of an exclusively Spanish genre: the zarzuela. It can be defined, superficially, a...
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He helped develop the Folk Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts and he's been head of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Now, Dan Shee...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, KPVL, and WNJR
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Fiesta! pays a visit to giants of Chile’s musical history, such as Domingo Santa Cruz, Acario Cotapos, Carlos Isamitt and Alfonso Letelier.
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- Length: 58:29
Throughout history, myths have been a popular source of inspiration. Ibero-American composers (that means from Spain, Portugal and Latin America),...
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- Length: 58:30
A brief but sufficient alto sax solo by Charlie Bird Parker then the next generation of boppers Dexter Gordon. From the Moonlight in Vermont and S...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WYAP, WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KPVL and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 6
Throughout history some musicians have reached immense popularity just to be quickly forgotten, many times without a clear explanation. In other ca...
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- Length: 58:30
Little Portugal, once one of the mightiest nations in the world, can boast of an amazing musical treasure. From the medieval period to the present,...
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Nature has inspired, and continues to inspire, composer from all cultures. Bolivian Alberto Villapando and Brazilian Almeida Prado have written gor...
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Canyengue is lunfardo (slang) from Rio de la Plata. The word comes from the African Ki-Kongo language and means “melting with the music.” It would...
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- Length: 58:30
Few Spanish symphonies, if any, have found its place within the standard repertoire, a strange phenomenon, considering the richness and depth of th...
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- Length: 58:30
It is known that soccer (or fútbol, as it is called in Spanish) constitutes and important element of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese identit...
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Canyengue is lunfardo (slang) from Rio de la Plata. The word comes from the African Ki-Kongo language and means “melting with the music.” It would...
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- Length: 58:29
As Joaquín Rodrigo’s music has been overshadowed by the extraordinary success of Concerto de Aranjuez, the composer, Blas Galindo has experienced t...
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Well before the Impressionism claimed direct inspiration in nature, musicians from different eras and styles linked the music to its forces. In thi...
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Alberto Nepomuceno was a dominant figure of Brazilian music in the second part of the 19th century and into the 20th century until the arrival of V...
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- Length: 58:30
Xanath Caraza likes to use poetry to showcase some of Mexico's linguistic and cultural diversity, drawing inspiration from Afro-Mexican history, La...
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Legendary Brazilian guitar duo Sergio and Odair Assad have been performing and recording together for 50 years, reinventing guitar technique along ...
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- Length: 58:29
Ten Latin American countries are bathed by the Pacific Ocean. In this program we are starting with the two southernmost among these nations: Peru ...
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¡Fiesta! will visit once more the work of the most important Latin American living composer, Cuban Leo Brouwer. W will present his rarely heard con...
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This program features, as in a traditional symphonic concert, an exquisite and vibrant overture, a full-scale violin concerto, and a monumental sy...
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Outside his native Brazil, Edino Krieger is mostly known for his substantial work for the piano. But he was also a very imaginative orchestrator. ...
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- Length: 58:30
In 1492, after being exiled from Spain, Sephardic communities blended their music traditions wherever they settled. Starting with a song in ancien...
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In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Esteban Salas, born in La Habana, Cuba, in 1725 and José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, born in Vila do Principe, Brasil, in 1746, were two of t...
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- Length: 58:30
