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Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Bang, Bang, Bang)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Did you ever want to learn to play a musical instrument? It's not too late and not as difficult as you might think. Evelyn Glennie has just the r...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Scalpel Sutures Harp)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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In the event you may be undergoing surgery in the near future, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis suggests you check to see if your health insurance cover...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Wayne Coyne
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Rock musician Wayne Coyne believes happiness isn't coincidence, but something we make within ourselves.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, WBHM, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 4
How to Avoid Breaking Out the Musical Sledge Hammer: Or How to Use Music Most Effectively
From: Audio School
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Guide for youth radio producers on how to use music effectively

  • Added: Jan 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:38
Saturdays with Koo Nimo
From: amara hark-weber
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Every Saturday morning, Ghanaian musician Koo Nimo hosts a group for children. This is his description.

Bought by Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Not About Me)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The piano part has the most notes -- thousands -- but it's a cello sonata. Pianist Orion Weiss talks about his need to play second fiddle to the ce...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weis (Deep Massenet)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The "Meditation" from the Opera, "Thais", is the only moment we know from this all but forgotten opera by Jules Massenet. Today, the "Meditation" ...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Yes Dear)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Getting accepted as a student at a prestigious music school is a grueling and highly competitive process. At Indiana University, Piano Professor (...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Just Friends)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Two friends, both musicians, team up to play a romantic moment by Beethoven and Mozart. Even though, they're "just friends", cellist Julie Albers ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 28, 2006
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Cello on Fire)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Pianist Orion Weiss joins cellist Julie Albers for a performance of "Variations on a Paganini Theme" by Piatigorsky. It's a virtuosic showstopper f...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 28, 2006
  • Length: :18
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Citizenship 101)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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JoAnn Falletta is the conductor of the Virginia Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Although she is a frequent guest conductor around...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 27, 2006
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (You're Fired!)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Conductor JoAnn Falletta talks about the mostly positive changes that have taken place in the classical music, particularly the new face and image ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: :39
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Copland's Jazz Blessing)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman calls composer Aaron Copland on the phone to ask his permission to bring a more jazz-like sensibility to the composer...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Mozart My Way)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman talks about the evolution of his interpretation of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Putting old recordings by his clari...

Bought by WHRV, WITF, and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 3
Soundbank Funders - Richard Stoltzman (Power in Music)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
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For your Fundraising campaign, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman reminds your listeners of the power of music. He adds that "finding music that appeal...

Bought by KTXK, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, New Hampshire Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2006
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 28
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (What's Crossover?)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Joshua Bell was excited when his record label asked him to record music by two "great melody writers," Leonard Bernstein and George Gersh...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Mendelssohn Lover)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Joshua Bell speculates he's performed Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto a thousand times. And each time he plays it, he's reminded of why it...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Rhapsody Redefined)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Sergie Rachmaninoff's music has been called everything from sappy and sentimental to over-done romantic gush. Pianist Stephen Hough strongly disag...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - David Russell (Play it Slow)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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"Asturias" is one of those rhythmically passionate Spanish guitar pieces you've heard a hundred times, but may not know by name. But when you've h...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Rubber Band Man)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Stradivarius Violin is the gold standard when it comes to violin making. Although violinist Joshua plays a Strad today, he remembers his very ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Clarice Assad (First Style First)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Clarice Assad is a composer, singer, arranger, and her musical arena includes classical music, Jazz and Brazilian Pop. When she was asked to write...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell Clip (Religious Regardless)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The power of music is so strong for some it takes on religious proportions. That's the case for violinist Joshua Bell. Music IS his religion, whe...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (Holiday Dreams)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg fulfills her life-long dream to turn the holiday music memories of a child into her own Christmas Music CD. She...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Martin Pearlman (What Kind of Man?)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What makes Handel and Handel's Messiah so powerful and magnificent? That may seem like a question with no complete answer or a long list of answer...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KWAX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 3
Ed Bell's Sweetgum Bottom Blues
From: Tanya Ott
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Interview about a little-known, but influential Alabama bluesman

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1

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