PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music
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From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Gus Garcia YMLA 2017 Stories
Series: Gus Garcia YMLA 2017 Stories
Austin-based composer and Atash director Roberto Riggio brings new perspectives on playing to young musicians.
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 11:43
Edmund Catlin is a young Twin Cities drummer who, while still in college, plays in a variety of jazz bands.
To Edmund, playing jazz requires a comb...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 06:53
How do you become a jazz musician? The key just may be persistence. You can take lessons and school courses, but if you really want to play jazz…we...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 05:21
Most young people don’t know what they want to do with their lives. This is a story about a high school student who was born into a calling – being...
- Added: Dec 24, 2015
- Length: 05:18
Sound Skirmish is a group of Twin Cities young people who have been playing serious jazz for years, and with a heavy composing emphasis. Levi Schwa...
- Added: Dec 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 03:52
Merle Knudson was a saxophonist with a distinctive sound who also acted to help young jazz players get going. Phil Nusbaum talks to Doug Haining an...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Music festivals all around the country are great places to hear live music. However, not everyone can enjoy the music. Many of the stages have an a...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:22
Twin Cities Weekend is a five minute feature that keeps listeners up to date on what's happening the following weekend. Artist interviews and music...
- Added: Nov 20, 2014
- Length: 05:00
TraVaughn Hicks has been making music since he was a young boy and his rapper uncle would record him singing on his songs.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 04:36
Bullying isn't an American phenomenon. In Sweden, a federally-appointed bullying ombudsman will sue a school district for not sheltering students f...
Bought by Listenwise, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)
- Added: Feb 21, 2012
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 3
Steampunk is quickly moving from a quirky Victorian sci-fi subculture to a major inspiration for mainstream artists like Panic at the Disco and Rus...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
Danee Voss, a student at Susan B Anthony middle School in Minneapolis talked to her mother about the function of music at different ages. The resul...
- Added: May 14, 2011
- Length: 01:00
The traditional art of Western-style yodeling is extremely difficult to master. That's why it's surprising that one of the most gifted yodelers ar...
Bought by KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
What would you ask the bass player of one of your favorite bands?
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 05:02
A look at a fast-changing China through the lens of youth culture and rock music.
- Added: May 03, 2010
- Length: 06:59
Open the box and see what metamorphoses. If kids put together a music show from their very own perspective, the outcome will mostly be somewhat une...
- Added: Sep 29, 2009
- Length: 29:59
A look into the teenage world of opera, give it a try, it's cooler than you think!
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 1
Post-rock ambience in Milwaukee, and San Francisco glitch melancholy
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 03:27
- Added: Oct 07, 2008
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Hillary's been playing music all her life and her gender never seemed to matter. But when she began composing things got more complicated.
Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2008
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 6
How a song by New Wave band Berlin, and a generous act by their lead singer, helped a young lesbian feel she wasn't alone.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 25, 2006
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
A song that tells a story of one boy?s experiences growing up as an outsider.
- Added: Oct 24, 2006
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 4
Spending a day with Steve Eubanks, director of the Jefferson City High School marching Jayband
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Mar 13, 2006
- Length: 08:21
- Purchases: 1
Satanic and violent or just another genre of music? High school English teacher, Travis Fields, dispels some myths about heavy metal music.
Bought by WXLV-FM
- Added: Jan 12, 2006
- Length: 07:35
- Purchases: 1
