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A Shortcut Through 2023
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: GW Bridge June 2023
A retrospective of the entire year, including the major political, cultural and emotional events, with music and celebrations of those who've left ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSRQ, WJCT, KMSU, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 6
Ebony Classics - The Language of Music
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Eleanor Alberga, Credit: www.navonarecords.com
"Ebony Classics - The Language of Music" features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2021
  • Length: 56:45
Songs for the Struggle-Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (episode 2)
From: Daniel Polletta
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Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created "Songs for the Struggle- Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement." This is ...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, KBEM, Wyoming Public Radio, WCPN, WDCB and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 6
Songs for the Struggle-Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (episode 1)
From: Daniel Polletta
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Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created "Songs for the Struggle- Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement." This is ...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, KBEM, Wyoming Public Radio, WCPN, WDCB and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 6
Shortcuts 2020 Tributes
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Fred Willard
An additional hour of tributes from just a few of those lost in 2020

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Dec 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut Through 2020
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A final look at an impossible year, 12 months of incredible drama, played out over the world stage in an hour long retrospective

Bought by KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 13
Worth Fighting For Pt 1
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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"You're worth fighting for" is the tagline of the upcoming book Be Solid: How To Go Through Hell & Come Out Whole. When you experience heartbreak a...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Mother's Day (A Love Celebration)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
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Nice Jazz, R&B and Pop music to make Mothers day a wonderful day for your listening audience.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:26
  • Purchases: 3
Pete Seeger Sing Out - Part 2
From: Cambridge Forum
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We cannot replicate his voice, but we can keep his music and his spirit alive. Cambridge Forum celebrates Pete Seeger and the power of music with t...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
Chet Baker (Ep. 22)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Cool jazz icon Chet Baker
Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the ...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WFAE, KPIP-LP, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Nursing The Blues! Alberta Hunter
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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Nursing The Blues! The Story of Alberta Hunter is an introduction and a presentation of the musical life of Jazz and Blues singer ALBERTA HUNTER. S...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 56:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Blues Rib Shack (Show V)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The "Blues Rib Shack" is a one hour musical show divided into three segments. This is show #5 of a limited series.

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:56
The Blues Rib Shack (Show I)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The "BLUES RIB SHACK" is a one hour musical show divided into three segments. It leaves room for the news, announcements and radio station identi...

  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 55:44
Return to Camelot PT. 2
From: Boyce Lancaster
Series: Return to Camelot: Music in the Kennedy White House
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As the Kennedy presidency begins, a veritable Who's Who of artists, writers, and composers visit the White House.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Return to Camelot, PT. 4
From: Boyce Lancaster
Series: Return to Camelot: Music in the Kennedy White House
Caption: Marion Anderson sings at President Kennedy's memorial service
In the months following President Kennedy's assassination, musicians and composers the world over expressed their sorrow through music

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
RN Documentary: The Music of Love (Valentine's Day special)
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Seated at his Bechstein grand, concert pianist and astrologer Gary Goldschneider talks to Dheera Sujan about the music inspired by and written abou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KRPS, KFAI Minneapolis, KRZA, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2007
  • Length: 30:59
  • Purchases: 7
Crossing East: Jared Rehberg Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Singer/Songwriter Jared Rehberg is perhaps the only transracial and international adoptee who sings about being an adoptee.

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Dory Previn Part 1
From: Bernadette Cahill
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Conversation and music of singer/songwriter Dory Previn with host Bernadette Cahill.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 58:55
Interview with Dory Previn Part 2
From: Bernadette Cahill
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Continuation/conclusion of conversation and music of singer/songwriter Dory Previn.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
Nancarrow and the Player Piano
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The life and work of a renegade composer who blazed a trail to the future by using an instrument that sounded like the past.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Program 6: Rotterdam Conducted by Valery Gergiev
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Rotterdam Revisited: The Orchestra and Its Conductors
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Gergiev conducts Rotterdam in Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" - in its entirety.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2004
  • Length: 02:54:50
That's My Song: Under Pressure
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
Series: That's My Song
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One boy's bittersweet association with a David Bowie song.

Bought by KALW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2004
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 8
Program 4: Rotterdam Conducted by Edo de Waart
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Rotterdam Revisited: The Orchestra and Its Conductors
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Edo de Waart conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Added: May 19, 2004
  • Length: 01:53:40