PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music
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When the aging jazz artist was hospitalized, his doctors thought they should get some background information on his life, and he told them that he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
“The Greatest Short Story of All Time?”
Since childhood, the Ray Bradbury story, The Veldt, has fascinated me. It was one of the first stories tha...
- Added: Jun 17, 2023
- Length: 58:32
To celebrate the incredibly influential American composer Philip Glass's 80th birthday, enjoy this music infused hour recorded last February when h...
Bought by WFMT Station Account, KMUN, and Interlochen Public Radio
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 58:44
- Purchases: 3
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 13:56
John Roderick is the singer and frontman of the band "The Long Winters" and a candidate for Seattle City Council (Position 8). He talks with hosts ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 39:14
On this episode of CLASSICAL DARK ARTS, we look at Satan’s cabal of classical composers, players and theorists — a sleeper cell run by Liszt, Pagan...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 23:51
Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 2
"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 5
One is earthy and comical--an 18th century musical tale of thieves, tramps and trollops. The other is the most beloved holiday concert piece in the...
Bought by WUAL
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We know it as “Good King Wenceslas,” but the carol, written in the mid-1800s, has a tune borrowed from a medieval salute to spring flowers! Join ho...
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
They stand in humble contrast with those other famous visitors to the stable in Bethlehem--the mysterious and awesome Three Kings—but it is the she...
Bought by WUAL
- Added: Nov 11, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Many composers—Jewish or not—have used Hebraic themes and styles in their music, and whether recalling sacred rituals or scenes from village life, ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Howard Smith's interview with Mick Jagger, Oct. 20th, 1969. The Stones have just arrived in the US for a historic tour, which ends at the infamous ...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 02:49
- Purchases: 1
Interview with Serbian musician Nemanja Kojic (Hornsman Coyote) by Constance A. Dunn. Interview from Coyote's living room in Belgrade.
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 44:12
As far back as the 1920s, jazz bands were performing music that had hidden messages inside their songs. Messages that asked their audience to pled...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 49:30
- Purchases: 1
Hurricane Sandy's impact on the landscape and political landscape in the runup to election day...told through narration, music and soundbites. This...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 57:04
A selective survey of how protest songs have changed from anthems to personal statements...told thru narration, music and soundbites..from Paul Fis...
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 57:59
A review of the rock documentary about Hole drummer Patty Schemel.
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 02:00
With the closure of Storyville in New Orleans, many talented musicians landed in Memphis before making their way to Chicago and New York.
- Added: Jan 18, 2012
- Length: 58:59
This "newsical" program is an informal survey of pop culture myths and popular music misconceptions about getting older...by a veteran of Pacifica ...
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 54:53
- Purchases: 1
Tibetan hip hop sits awkwardly next to Kazakh folk, and a Beijing rap metal band converts to Mongolian throat-singing. Um...is this Chinese music?
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Tired of the usual pundits? This program provides a unique
"take" on The State of the Union events--the seating, the speech by the President and th...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 49:38
A two hour, weekly theme based, music and discussion show. Every week, hosts Dirk Flytrap and The Doctor pick a theme or topic and explore it throu...
Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT
- Added: Dec 04, 2010
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 1
This episode looks at music as communication. In Africa drums were always used to send messages across the jungle. These same drums are now used to...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 18:08
- Purchases: 1
The ambient house pioneers The Orb talk about their sample and slice journey.
- Added: Jun 12, 2008
- Length: 03:30
