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One 2 Flow On- N**ga Please
From: Stevan Smith
Series: One 2 Flow On
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A honest commentary on Hip Hop music and culture.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: 03:14
Virtuoso Voices - John Adams (Feelings)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What makes a composer's music resonate with the audience? Composer John Adams offers a starting point to this ultimately unanswerable question. U...

Bought by WETS and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Bernard Haitink (Don't Mess Around)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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"Back Seat Drivers" are bad for those of us in the driver's seat, and they can be just as distracting for composers. Conductor Bernard Haitink tal...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :29
Gloria Estefan: 90 Millas
From: Joyride Media
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New one-hour radio special dedicated to Cuba's musical diaspora, and its rich heritage that continues through its most prominent exiled artists.

Bought by KMUW, Harford Community Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
KERA Commentary: Okkervil River
From: KERA
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Review of the new Okkervil River CD, "The Stage Names"

  • Added: Aug 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:10
Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (Mozart not Muzak)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 is very well known, primarily because of its Second Movement. Besides the concert hall and CD, you're also likely to...

Bought by WHRV and WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
NPR's All Songs Considered: Summer Look-Ahead Show, Pt. 2
From: NPR Music
Series: All Songs Considered from NPR Music
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Part 2 of our Summer Look-Ahead Series featuring Linda Thompson, Paul McCartney and Spoon.

Bought by KTRL, WUKY, WQUB 90.3 FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WFSU


  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
NPR's All Songs Considered: Summer Look-Ahead Show, Pt. 1
From: NPR Music
Series: All Songs Considered from NPR Music
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Part 1 of our Summer Look-Ahead Series featuring Linda Thompson, Paul McCartney, Spoon and more.

Bought by KTRL, WQUB 90.3 FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WUKY, WFSU and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
KERA Commentary: Jack Ingram & The Countryfication of Pop
From: KERA
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David Okamoto on Jack Ingram's new CD and the "countryfication" of pop

  • Added: May 02, 2007
  • Length: 04:02
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Debilitating Liszt)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Huge. Blockbuster. Larger than life. Those are just a few of the ways you could describe the Piano Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt. Awadagin P...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Who's on First)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Performers like to put their individual stamp on a piece of music, especially in a concerto, where the solo part is the star of the show. Violinis...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Vibrato is Verboten)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Richard Stoltzman is one of the most recognized solo clarinetists in the world, but he's never been officially welcomed into the Clarinet Fraternit...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :22
  • 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...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
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 - David Russell (Dowland in the Dumps)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Certain pieces of classical music are known to be soothing and even healing for the listener, but it can have similar effects on the composer who a...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
Vic Teakwood /"Smells Like Teen Sweatshops"
From: Doug Gordon
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A satirical commentaraoke

  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 02:23
Virtuoso Voices - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (No Way Sibelius)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What really motivated Sibelius to write his Violin Concerto? Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg says he wrote this "ridiculously, unnecessarily aw...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (Tchaikovsky is Star Wars)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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One person's trash is another person's treasure. Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg readily admits the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is mostly fluff...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
New Music Review: Jason Moran
From: KUT
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The low-down on the latest release by one of the brightest luminaries in modern jazz: 'Artist in Residence' by Jason Moran.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2006
  • Length: 02:56
ACL FESTIVAL COVERAGE: Feature 5 of 5 - Critic's Picks
From: KUT
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Continuing coverage of the 2006 Austin City Limits Music Festival.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:38
Let's Go To The Punk Rawk Show: An Interview With MxPx
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
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Zoe Cordes Selbin interviews the drummer of the 15-year-old pop-punk band MxPx.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Sep 11, 2006
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 1
Misery & Torment
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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A gentle diatribe against country music and too much of anything.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:40
New Music Review: "You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker" by Willie Nelson
From: KUT
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Just in time for Women's History Month, Willie Nelson pays tribute to a legendary Texas songwriter. The result may be another classic.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:05
Black Classical Masters series: William Grant Still
From: David Person
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Profile of William Grant Still, the dean of black classical composers, with excerpts of an interview with his daughter Judy.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2006
  • Length: 19:57

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