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Virtuoso Voices - Erich Kunzel (Better than Bach)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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You may know Leopold Stokowski as a conductor and for his role in the Disney classic, Fantasia. He was also an organist on a mission to bring grea...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: :21
Virtuoso Voices - Steven Isserlis (Firing Squad)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Robert Schumann is universally recognized as a great pianist and composer of piano music. Cellist Steven Isserlis is a big Schumann fan, and he re...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2008
  • Length: :19
Virtuoso Voices - Steven Isserlis (The Evangelist)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Bach Suites for Solo Cello are the cellist's bible and yet their existence is shrouded in mystery. Cellist Steven Isserlis is happy to specula...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: :22
Washington State's Plan B Battle: A Precursor to the Supreme Court
From: Adam Vaughn
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In Washington State a battle over consitutional rights surrounding Plan Ba rages on. This is currently on a one-way road for the Supreme Court.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2008
  • Length: 03:41
Virtuoso Voices - Julia Fischer (Universal Soul Mate)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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While your spouse or significant other is likely to be your soul mate, you might also have a composer who fills the musical equivalent of a soul ma...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Julia Fischer (Never too Young)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Julia Fischer often finds that she has to defend her age and her generation. The up and coming 24* year old admits she bristles a bit wh...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: :29
Virtuoso Voices - John Adams (Feelings)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What makes a composer's music resonate with the audience? Composer John Adams offers a starting point to this ultimately unanswerable question. U...

Bought by WETS and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Bernard Haitink (Don't Mess Around)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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"Back Seat Drivers" are bad for those of us in the driver's seat, and they can be just as distracting for composers. Conductor Bernard Haitink tal...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :29
Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (Mozart not Muzak)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 is very well known, primarily because of its Second Movement. Besides the concert hall and CD, you're also likely to...

Bought by WHRV and WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Debilitating Liszt)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Huge. Blockbuster. Larger than life. Those are just a few of the ways you could describe the Piano Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt. Awadagin P...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Who's on First)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Performers like to put their individual stamp on a piece of music, especially in a concerto, where the solo part is the star of the show. Violinis...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Vibrato is Verboten)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Richard Stoltzman is one of the most recognized solo clarinetists in the world, but he's never been officially welcomed into the Clarinet Fraternit...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Moonlit Night)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 is a joyful ride through all of the melodies and pianistic prizes you associate with Chopin. Its Second Movement, pi...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Chopin for Last)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The "People's Favorite": pianist Garrick Ohlsson talks about the universal popularity and mood altering music by Chopin. It's like "dessert" -- wh...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (What's Crossover?)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Joshua Bell was excited when his record label asked him to record music by two "great melody writers," Leonard Bernstein and George Gersh...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - David Russell (Dowland in the Dumps)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Certain pieces of classical music are known to be soothing and even healing for the listener, but it can have similar effects on the composer who a...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (No Way Sibelius)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What really motivated Sibelius to write his Violin Concerto? Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg says he wrote this "ridiculously, unnecessarily aw...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (Tchaikovsky is Star Wars)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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One person's trash is another person's treasure. Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg readily admits the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is mostly fluff...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Three Iraqi Americans on War and Peace: short piece
From: Miae Kim
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Three Iraqi Americans' views on Iraq war

  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:51
AFSC and the Martin Luther King Legacy
From: Janis Shields
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Paul Lacey, the clerk of AFSC's Board of Directors, Speaks at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
Why I am a Democrat
From: Pete Mills
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Democrat Promo

  • Added: Oct 12, 2005
  • Length: 01:19