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This week on the show: Death and music - After a year of so many lives lost, people around the world have found new, creative ways to deal with ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: -Germany assumes the EU's rotating presidency. -UK businesses pay the price of both COVID-19 and Brexit. -What's behind T...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
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This week on the show: Let's dive into the world of music. Did you know the Christmas song Silent Night originated in a small Austrian village 20...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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On this week’s show: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's last-ditch deal to end a dispute over migration. Harley-Davidson caught in the crosshair...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Atmosphere
Sean Daley, AKA MC Slug from Minneapolis hip-hop group Atmosphere and record label Rhymesayers Entertainment talks with Charlie Pulkrabek about the...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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For your Fundraising campaign, conductor Semyon Bychkov invites your listeners to join him in making great music by supporting classical music on P...

Bought by WSMC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :12
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Anne-Sophie Mutter
For your Fundraising campaign, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter reminds your listeners that classical music is a constant presence in their lives thank...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, and KUCO


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Misha Dichter, Credit: Stefan Cohen
You can make the piano sound loud and thunderous in two ways. There’s the “pounding and banging” school, but that can create a kind of musical mus...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :24
Caption: Misha Dichter, Credit: Stefan Cohen
The term “virtuoso” has come to mean many things over the years. These days, it seems to describe someone who can play very, very fast, but not ne...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :28
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
Recordings serve as a permanent record, and most musicians only want their best performances preserved for a lifetime. While some seek perfection ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :19
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
Brigg Fair is one of the shining musical lights from the composing pen of Frederick Delius. Mark Elder loves his music, but says it needs a little...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :28
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
How does a conductor or any musician for that matter, choose the right tempo. How fast, or how slow, should the music go? Conductor Mark Elder fi...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :23
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
One of the things you might notice in recordings conducted by Mark Elder – especially with English music – is tempo. He plays British music faster...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :24
Caption: Kristjan Järvi, Credit: Peter Rigaud
You may be old enough to remember American Bandstand with Dick Clark, where each week a couple of teenagers would rate a new record. From that seg...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :29
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
You’ve probably seen several, if not dozens of paintings by the Dutch painter, Vincent Gogh. But have you ever looked at a Van Gogh close up – rea...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :26
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
There’s plenty of room for passion and emotion in Tchaikovsky’s music. But the key is knowing how far to take the drama. That’s an especially rel...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :28
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Cellists lament the fact that Mozart did not write a solo sonata or concerto for their instrument. Zuill Bailey says cellists got the next best th...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Cellists thank their lucky stars for the wide range of music written for their instrument. The cello is often the composer’s voice for a variety o...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :24
Caption: Gil Shaham
Some music sounds and looks easy, but that’s often not the case. Violinist Gil Shaham says the Violin Concertos by Haydn are not for beginners. Us...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :27
Caption: Robert Spano
Performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra have been called “vivid” and “rhapsodic” by the New York Times, and it’s clear that Atlanta hosts on...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :28
Caption: Kim Kashkashian, Credit: courtesy of WGBH
Betty Olivero’s Neharót Neharót was composed in 2006 in response to the pain and suffering of the war in Lebanon. It’s written for solo viola, two...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :22
Caption: Gil Shaham
Violinist Gil Shaham calls the Octet for Strings by Mendelssohn “a mind blowing achievement.” What makes it so great? He says it’s a case, at lea...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: :28
Caption: Mark O'Connor, Credit: Jim McGuire
What makes American music American? Composer and violinist Mark O’Connor tries to tell that story – or history – in his “Appalachia Waltz.” Use th...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :33
Caption: Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has a new recording of the Gershwin Piano Concerto. It features the evocative, but rarely heard orchestration by Ferde...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :24