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Art can be an expression of many elements of the self. So what happens when your sense of self is evolving or fluid? That’s something that local ar...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 07:39
Beethoven wrote one opera, Fidelio. A 2003 production so captivated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she wrote a letter to the director.
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 03:11
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Dec 31, 2013
- Length: 02:14
Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 22, 2013
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
On Saturday, July 6, the musician who has given the Bemidji area its honest and gritty musical swagger for decades, Jim Miller, passed on. Jim's lo...
- Added: Oct 12, 2013
- Length: 58:11
- Purchases: 2
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - "The Importance of Playing Trumpet Is Sometimes Not About the Tune."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, MinnesotaSeries: Acoustic Stories
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 02:14
For most musicians, Bach is more than just music. For violinist Midori, Bach is a way of life. Use this 26 second clip to introduce Midori playin...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :26
Musicians often become “one” with their instrument – it’s not just an expensive and valuable piece of equipment they use on the job. For some, lik...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :21
When you look into the story behind some of the most beautiful music, you often find that something dark or even tragic lies at the source. Conduc...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :27
How does one make a sound on an instrument? Violist Kim Kashkashian says it actually has little to do with the instrument itself. Ultimately, she...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :22
We know Haydn, the wonderful composer of symphonies and string quartets, but did you know he also wrote some terrific Violin Concertos? Violinist ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: :25
Artist: Barbra Streisand
Song: Send in the Clowns
Bought by KZYX, KHNS, KCRW, The Story, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Jun 01, 2010
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 6
In soprano Anna Netrebko’s recording of Russian Romances, she introduces us to the not-as-well-known sides of two well-known composers – Rimsky-Kor...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: :26
Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski champions two composers from his country – Frederic Chopin and Karol Szymanowski. Like Chopin, Szymanowski’s mus...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: :22
The Piano Sonata No 2 by Chopin is best known for the funeral march in the third movement. That march has been immortalized from its appearances i...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :23
After a stormy and almost raucous orchestral introduction, the clarinet makes a quiet, almost innocent entrance in the Concertino for Clarinet by C...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: :31
There's your driver's license, your passport, and if you're clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, your clarinet sound is another proof of I-D. Use this 2...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :26
Debussy's First Rhapsody for Clarinet began as a contest piece for students at the Paris Conservatory. That explains the presence of the virtuoso ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :26
Carl Maria von Weber wrote quite a bit of solo music for the clarinet, and much of it is highly dramatic and virtuosic. Weber tended to think of i...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :22
There are 161 recordings of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 162 recordings of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Joshua Bell has recorded both of t...
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
- Length: :18
Pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is not quite sure what's more amazing - that Beethoven wrote so many remarkable pieces of music, or that h...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :22
The musician's life is a humbling up and down journey towards perfection, or at least musical expression on the highest level. If you don't get it...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
Back in the early 1990's, a French researcher introduced a theory known as the "Mozart Effect." It advanced the idea that listening to Mozart's mu...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
