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With some music, especially new music, it takes a couple of hearings to really get to know the music and to find out what it's really all about. V...
- Added: Nov 28, 2008
- Length: :25
"Blue Cathedral," written by Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed contemporary orchestral works in the U-S. She composed it with her broth...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
Violinist Eugene Drucker reads an excerpt from his debut novel, THE SAVIOR (reissued in Paperback on July 8, 2008).
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
There's often a story behind a story behind the music we love, but not always. Mozart never really tells us how he came to write his Violin Sonata...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :28
A look at the growing campaign against homophobic dancehall songs
Bought by WBHM and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2008
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 2
We know that personal and artistic insecurities often accompanied Tchaikovsky's daily composing activities. Conductor Erich Kunzel says there's pl...
- Added: Nov 25, 2007
- Length: :15
Composer Michael Torke lives and composes in New York. His choice of address and even possibly his writing style can be traced back to an event in...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :28
Cellist Lynn Harrell, like all serious musicians, dedicates himself to the music and it's composer. What sets him apart from some other musicians ...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Nov 01, 2006
- Length: :28
- Purchases: 2
Everyone has their favorite piece of music. For Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, it has always been the Brahms Violin Concerto. Her challenge ...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Oct 31, 2006
- Length: :33
- Purchases: 2
At the one year anniversary observance of 911, Guitarist Sharon Isbin was invited to perform at Ground Zero during the reading of the names of the ...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Sep 07, 2006
- Length: :32
- Purchases: 2
What was the secret behind the Leonard Bernstein mystique? Conductor and former Bernstein student, JoAnn Falletta says it was how he inspired her ...
Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Aug 31, 2006
- Length: :34
- Purchases: 3
