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This week on melodically challenged, we look to the heavens. We’ll be celebrating several successful NASA missions in 2022 that have extended human...
- Added: Dec 09, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”— Eavan Boland
Welcome to another edition of melodically c...
- Added: Oct 24, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Emily Dickinson said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Welcome to another edi...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Bobby Knight said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we’re...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Hippolyte Taine [Ipohleet Tehn] said “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
Welcome to anoth...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 01:00:00
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen Welcome to this week’s melodically cha...
- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
George Bernard Shaw said, “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” Welcome to this week’s melodically chal...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. Brene B...
- Added: Mar 18, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Frank Zappa said, “You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some n...
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Dean Karnazes said, “The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when thi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00:06
Andre Maurois said, “We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.” Welcome to this week’s melodica...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 01:00:06
Stanley Horowitz wrote, ”Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Welcome to another e...
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- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
At melodically challenged, we are proud of our show’s sound, and for that we thank Rettward von Doernberg, who generously lets us use his music, B...
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 01:00:07
Mara Hanel - Executive Director of the NW Minnesota Arts Council (NWMAC) shares details of the 2021 NWMAC annual exhibit, Of the Year Awards, progr...
- Added: Aug 24, 2021
- Length: 10:43
Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood, said, “Imagination…can open any door—turn the key and let terror walk right in.” This week on melodically c...
- Added: Oct 23, 2020
- Length: 01:00:03
The years 1813 to 1816 were a dry period for Beethoven. He was wrestling with his health and with his family. His brother, Casper, had passed away ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:01
At the dawning of the 19th Century Beethoven had not given up hope that his doctors would find a treatment to reverse his hearing loss. His condit...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:05
Ludwig van Beethoven has been called the most admired composer in all of music history. His legacy stands as a monument for the entire 19th Centur...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:05
Muzio Clementi was called the “father of the pianoforte”. He earned this title, not because he played the instrument first, but because he played ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:00
The rise of the American and French Revolutions were signs of deep changes in the Western world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Not on...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:01
Even if you’re not that familiar with classical music you still know the name Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and can probably hum a few of his tunes. His...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:00
The word symphony is one of the most iconic musical terms, but what makes a piece of music a symphony? The term itself is a compound word with Gre...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Franz Joseph Haydn is a towering figure of the Classical era. He didn’t just mimic the changes of the late 18th century, in a large way, his music...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:00
The Age of Enlightenment in the 18th Century called into question the powers of the monarchy and religious dogma. There was an emphasis on scienti...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:00
The death of J.S. Bach in 1750 has traditionally been regarded as the end of the Baroque Period. The well-known Classical era (of Haydn, Mozart an...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:02
