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In the endless sunshine of Dubai, Bilal Qureshi revisits Franz Schubert’s acclaimed song cycle “Winterreise.” The lyrics of a heartbroken man’s jou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: JoAnn Falletta, Credit: alchetron.com
We’ll hear music inspired from events on September 11, as well as some of the composers on this episode of What’s New!

Bought by WRTI, KMUN, Interlochen Public Radio, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 11
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As a composer and a horn player, Archie Shepp is a consummate innovator, never ceasing to push music forward.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 12
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In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits with Phil Lancaster, a musici...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 1
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We as a culture and as humans spend a lot of time with technology, all focused on the newest, latest and most updated this, that and the other. We ...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
From: Conor Gillies
Series: Stylus
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Is there such a thing as true silence?

Bought by KALW, WZEN.org, WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., HowSound and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 16:32
  • Purchases: 3
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Social partner dancing is in for the first time since the '50s. A look at why more and more of us are trading in our weekends for ballroom, and a g...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Mainstay New Orleans drummer/producer/teacher - a personal story of hurricane parties, performing at Jazzfest, teaching, and evacuating New Orleans...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 1
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An innovative story about the rediscovery of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Brinkley, Arkansas that blends interviews and an original song by Sufja...

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2005
  • Length: 11:57
  • Purchases: 10
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The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WHQR


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Radio Netherlands looks at what inspired Beethoven to write one of the most universally loved pieces of classical music.

Bought by WMNR, KPIK-LP, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WEKU, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 6
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From Scottish bagpipes to Metallica, this radio essay takes listeners on a short tour through the history of music as a weapon.

Bought by Raven Radio, KGUA, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2005
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 11