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Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Yes Dear)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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 - Menahem Pressler (Who's the Boss)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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At best, making music with others is a successful marriage -- there's give and take and compromise. Pianist Menahem Pressler is the founding membe...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Inspiration by the Dots)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Throughout his illustrious, 60-year career, pianist Menahem Pressler has been associated with the biggest names in classical music, from Toscanini ...

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)
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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)
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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)
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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 (Getting to Know You)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What's an effective way for a guest conductor to get to know a new orchestra quickly. JoAnn Falletta says a version of the silent treatment works ...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Dec 26, 2006
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (You're Fired!)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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 (Brahms Juicy Meat)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Good News: you don't need an advanced degree, or have even played an instrument, to enjoy classical music. Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman passes o...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 23, 2006
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Carnegie Hall Horror)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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No matter how much you practice and prepare for a concert, anything can happen on stage, like the time a bottom section of Richard Stoltzman's clar...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 22, 2006
  • Length: :43
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Nightmare at Carnegie)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
No matter how much you practice and prepare for a concert, anything can happen on stage, like the time pieces of Richard Stoltzman's clarinet fell ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 22, 2006
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Copland's Jazz Blessing)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
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


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Mozart My Way)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman talks about the evolution of his interpretation of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Putting old recordings by his clari...

Bought by WHRV, WITF, and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Mendelssohn Lover)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Joshua Bell speculates he's performed Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto a thousand times. And each time he plays it, he's reminded of why it...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - David Russell (Pujol's Clatter)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Sometimes music is not just about melody, it's about creating a scene or portraying a character that often redefines the boundaries of "beauty". G...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Rubber Band Man)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Stradivarius Violin is the gold standard when it comes to violin making. Although violinist Joshua plays a Strad today, he remembers his very ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Ho Ho Hough)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Tired of the same old Holiday Music? Pianist Stephen Hough has a few holiday tunes to add to your list. While they're not specifically Christmas ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Lynn Harrell (Dvorak's Cello Confessions)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Each instrument has at least one quality or characteristic that makes it different than the rest. Cellist Lynn Harrell says composers have used th...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Nov 02, 2006
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 2
Johnny Cash: Live at San Quentin
From: Joyride Media
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One-hour music intensive documentary looks back on Johnny Cash's historic 1969 concert at San Quentin State Prison.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, Prairie Public, KGLT, WNIJ, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Goodman's Mission)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Who knows best? When it comes to classical music, conductor Roy Goodman says it's not the conductor, the first violinist or the music critic. It'...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Audience Grows Young)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Where have all the young people gone? Surprise! Some, at least, are at classical music concerts. That's one encouraging trend pianist Jean-Yves ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 31, 2006
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Lynn Harrell (Upside Down Cello)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The cello is an upside down violin planted in the ground -- so says cellist Lynn Harrell. That makes the instrument the perfect foil for some tast...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Long Live Mozart)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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In our eternal quest to find a brilliant summary of Mozart's contribution to classical music and the world at large, here is Roy Goodman. The Brit...

Bought by WHRV, Eclectic 89.1 WBCX, WITF, and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 4
Virtuoso Voices - Leila Josefowicz (Shostakovich the Movie)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich spent most of his entire creative life worrying about whether his government was going to send him to jail or...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 02, 2006
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Andrew Litton (Walton's Henry V)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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If you have any doubts about the quality and integrity of film music, and the music's ability to stand on its own without the picture, composer Wil...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Sep 27, 2006
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 2