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2022-05-20 Coping with Climate through Music
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

Bought by KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
20220520: Coping with Climate through Music , 5/20/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Musician's Spotlight - Leni Stern - 670
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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It has always been a political act, a practice in strength and defiance, to be a woman and a bandleader, a female electric guitarist and composer, ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Listening to Ladies: Augusta Cecconi-Bates
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Octogenarian composer Augusta Cecconi-Bates talks about growing up a member of "the lost generation," hearing melodies in the written word, and whe...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 25:42
Virtuoso Voices - Pascal Roge (No Bad Pianos)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Caption: Pascal Rogé
Oboe players fuss over their reeds, trumpet players worry about their lips and string players guard their instruments and their bows. Pianists fre...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :17
The Needle Drop: 07-10-10
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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An interview with New Haven, CT's Procedure Club and progressive rock from Germany.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 57:08
  • Purchases: 5
A Musician's Life: Shelby Lynne
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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On this edition of "A Musician's Life" Tracey Tanenbaum speaks with Shelby Lynne. In 2001 she won a Grammy for best new artist. At the time, Lynne...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Lynn Harrell (Traditionally Suspicious)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Lynn Harrell, Credit: Christian Steiner
In music, and music schools worldwide, the teacher - student relationship can be a somewhat complicated matter. The traditional view is that the s...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (My Choice)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Yuja Wang
In music, and music schools worldwide, the teacher - student relationship can be a somewhat complicated matter. The tradition and traditional view...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :19
From Elvis In Memphis
From: Joyride Media
Series: I Am An Elvis Fan
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After a 13 year absence, Elvis returned to his hometown and created one his most highly acclaimed albums.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, WGZS and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Virtuoso Voices - Charles Dutoit (Young Charlie)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Charles Dutoit
Everyone has a view on the "youth of today," including conductor Charles Dutoit. When it comes to today's youth, he's not a grouch, but he would l...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jul 27, 2009
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz: The '59 Sound
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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Exploration of some of the enduring jazz recordings of 1959.

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WICR, KNKX, KPSQ-LP, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Virtuoso Voices - Steven Isserlis (The Evangelist)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Bach Suites for Solo Cello are the cellist's bible and yet their existence is shrouded in mystery. Cellist Steven Isserlis is happy to specula...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: :22
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
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