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"To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world," said Mahler. Hear unique historical comment and quotes from biographers, authors, conductor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WHRV


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Stephen Sondheim, Credit: Richard Avedon
A celebration of composer Stephen Sondheim with interviews, music and performances from his entire career

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 56:57
  • Purchases: 1
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You always have to think about the air.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Still Hope, Credit: Daniel Johnston
Celebrating more of those that we lost in the past year with tributes remixed from the cutting room floor of 2019

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:33
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Singer Yesenia Mejia of Artisanas Mexicanas

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hal Prince & Stephen Sondheim
A short tribute to the late Prince of Broadway with music from many of the shows he produced and directed with interview clips and memories of a tr...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:15
Caption: Julius Lester
Celebrating two radio legends who passed through Pacifica radio station WBAI in New York City in the seventies on their way to greater glory- I was...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:36
Caption: Scotty Moore with Elivis
This special mix features another gathering of the many artists, actors, musicians, comedians and celebrities who left us in 2016--from Muhammad Al...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Dec 23, 2016
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Listen to Philippine hits from the last thirty years of the last millenium...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:35:32
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We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 33:10
  • Purchases: 4
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Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 5
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Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College, shares the influence of Chinese opera, a rapidly-disappearing art form, wherever she can. Pan...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
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The discovery of art in the New York subway system

  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 35:12
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Turntablists create new soundtracks to Kung-Fu movies...live!

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 26, 2006
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 2
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Roky Erickson is the godfather of pyschedelic rock.

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 28, 2006
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 3
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Electronic musicians from the Nortec Collective talk about how life on the border influenced their music. The piece has music weaved throughout.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 17:13
  • Purchases: 1