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The Big Ponder #31: Winterreise
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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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
220219 Beatles and Bonaparte's Retreat, Bands Named "The Monarchs," and James Pagliasotti's book; What It Was; Growing Up When The Music Mattered.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Monarchs
We feature the first rock and roll songs that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because public radio can ignore the overwhelmin...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, WQCS, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
All Is Calm: A Quiet Afterglow Christmas
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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At the end the year, relax with Afterglow, as I play some peaceful holiday songs to soothe your soul, sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Frank...

Bought by KCNP, Radio Catskill, Troy Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Popular Music recorded 1/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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David Miller, of NPR's show Swinging Down the Lane, is one of the guests on this program of generational thoughts on Popular Music.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:53
The Future of Jazz
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to local jazz legend, Gene Parker. Gene has been a professional musician in the Toledo area for...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 06:06
RDD: Toraigh
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Toraigh is an Irish Gaelic word that means "seek" or "search." It's also the title of this week's Rough Draft Diaries as we meet a local band of t...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:07
Songs for the Struggle-Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (episode 2)
From: Daniel Polletta
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Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created "Songs for the Struggle- Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement." This is ...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, KBEM, Wyoming Public Radio, WCPN, WDCB and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 6
F-Word: Times They Ain't A Changing
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 2020
From: Dale Bolton
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Explore a glimpse of this vast repertoire of poetry, songs, stories, and recitations about the “Blessed Virgin Mary” in this holiday special. The i...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Most Hopeful Music in the World
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That - Shortcuts
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Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 07:54
The Untold Story of Hip Hop Honors English at St. Cloud State University
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with three freshmen at St. Cloud State Universit...

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 27:04
The Bob Dylan Jazz Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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It’s vocal jazz interpretations of the music of Bob Dylan, on this Afterglow special, including covers by Nina Simone, Madeleine Peyroux, and more.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
The Untold Story of the Listening Room at the Local Blend with Stephanie Cofell and Astra Seitz
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack heads back to the Local Blend in St. Joseph to talk li...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Untold Story of the Java Joint as a St. Cloud Music and Youth Cornerstone
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us back to the late 1990’s music scene in St. Cl...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
The Big Pond #48: Legacies of the Berlin Wall
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 2
All Mixed Up-American Dream
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Approaching America , Credit: 1905
From Antonín Dvorak's “New World Symphony” through Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land”, James Baldwin’s visions of a “Native Son” into the lat...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
You Will Hear Me
From: Dominique Johnson
Series: Come As You Are
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Black opera singers have always contributed to the art form. In this Come As You Are we highlight their performances, featuring famous opera star L...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:51:56
  • Purchases: 1
In Memoriam 2018
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look back at some of the people the rock world lost in 2018

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 57:09
Of Fire and Monsters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
#18-45 Armistice 100
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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On the 100th anniversary of the armistice, two works from a concert by Chanticleer including a piece by Mason Bates based on the poetry of Walt Whi...

Bought by KWAX, Rhythm & News Service, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
#18-28 Brittfest 2017 Opening Night: West Coast Composer Celebration
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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From last year's Brittfest, the world premiere of a piece by Kenji Bunch and more.

Bought by WCNY, KWAX, Rhythm & News Service, and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4
#18-27 PIO The Last Jew in Hamadan
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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From CMNW Summerfest, a new piece by Richard Danielpour and works by Mozart, and more.

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
180526 Southern Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
180303 Emile Griffith, Music From Boston and Music About The Back Door
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:23