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Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Don't be Boring)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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When you've played a piece of music for 20 or 30 years, it's easy to fall into old habits and the old ways of doing things. Clarinetist Richard St...

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Brahms Tight Space)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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It's always tempting to fill up your plate at the Sunday buffet table or at the salad bar. You know you can go back for seconds... or even thirds....

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 1
Learning to Sing
From: Aaron Henkin
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a choral program teaches children the universal language of music...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2007
  • Length: 07:45
Virtuoso Voices - Jennifer Higdon (Turning Down Work)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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There's an old saying in the music business: never turn down work. Composer Jennifer Higdon maintains a full schedule of commissions, and sometim...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Moonlit Night)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 is a joyful ride through all of the melodies and pianistic prizes you associate with Chopin. Its Second Movement, pi...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (After the Storm)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Beethoven's 4th Piano Sonata is one of the longest of his 32 sonatas, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson says every minute is rich with melody, musical in...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Jennifer Higdon (British Invasion)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Why does a composer write music the way they do? Jennifer Higdon says influences come from just about anywhere, and the road to becoming a classic...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Chopin for Last)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The "People's Favorite": pianist Garrick Ohlsson talks about the universal popularity and mood altering music by Chopin. It's like "dessert" -- wh...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (Young & Fearless)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Overnight success does happen but it's more myth than reality. Violinist Sarah Chang made her debut when she was 8 years old. Her success that ev...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :18
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Beethoven's Lab)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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While some might say Beethoven is best known for his 9th Symphony, or the famous first four notes of his Symphony Number 5, pianist Garrick Ohlsson...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (No Age Limit)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Audiences are thrilled by young musicians, especially child prodigies who toss off virtuosic phrases with childlike ease and exuberance. Violinist...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Jennifer Higdon (Blue Catharsis)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Blue Cathedral is composer Jennifer Higdon's most popular work, receiving more than 200 performances each year. Originally, she had no intention o...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Polish Hero)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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They "contain canons buried in flowers." "Pianist Garrick Ohlsson talks about the mixed messages contained within the Chopin Polonaises for piano....

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Astrology Songs: Harvey Sid Fisher Speaks
From: Ken Cormier
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Harvey Sid Fisher talks about how the Astrology Songs made him a cult hero.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2007
  • Length: 11:55
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Debussy the Tailor)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Yolanda Kondonassis talks about one of classical music's most nurturing and resonating relationships -- the one between French composer Claude Debu...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Moon Theft)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Clair de Lune (Moonlight) is one of Claude Debussy's best known works, and it's the perfect introduction to the "Impressionist" school of compositi...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :16
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Clueless)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Breaking down the barrier between classical music and its audience is a priority for many classical music performers, including the charismatic per...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (On A Lark)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Hilary Hahn has been playing the beautiful "Lark Ascending" Violin Concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams for most of her career -- some cons...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (I'm No Angel )
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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"Assume nothing," says harpist Yolanda Kondonassis. Just because the harp has been linked to the angels, she adds, doesn't mean the harp and its p...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Music is Medicine)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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We often hear about the healing qualities of music. Percussionist Evelyn Glennie recommends we take it in regular doses. Use this 31 second clip ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Hovhaness World)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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While Alan Hovhaness' music has a distinct and recognizable sound and texture, it's the sum of many different cultures and nationalities. Harpist ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Martin Pearlman (Bach's B-5 Shocker)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The idea of a keyboard instrument being a soloist in a concerto is obvious to us today, but in Bach's time, the keyboard usually played politely in...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Laugh it Off)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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We all makes mistakes -- some just get noticed more than most, like when you're playing your violin on stage before an audience of thousands. Viol...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Defines Percussion)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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When Evelyn Glennie tells people she plays percussion, they often assume she's the drummer in a Rock band. But since there are literally thousands...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Paganini the Opera)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Something's missing in violinist Hilary Hahn's latest CD. Rather than take the traditional "show off your fantastic technique" approach in two hig...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2

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