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Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 13:06
"I kind of had a revelation once seeing him [Randy Weston] play live. It happened for me in a particular time in my life when I recently made the d...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 12:02
- Purchases: 3
For one Indian classical singer, a crowded little apartment in Queens--or even just the sound of a shruthi box (an Indian-style musical drone)--bri...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 1
On this edition of The Live Feed, KQAL's Teri Tenseth visits with Detroit Born, New York based musician called Bitch. Trained in classical violin a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 08, 2011
- Length: 48:51
- Purchases: 1
Songwriter Anna Coogan discusses her approach to writing songs inspired by Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.
- Added: Oct 10, 2011
- Length: 05:01
A music historian tells stories about how classical composers have been influenced by the threat of war and the hope for peace in their works. Mus...
Bought by KUOW, KUOW, WFIU, KHNS, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Oct 02, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Carlisle Floyd talks about his extensive career in opera, including writing some of his most famous pieces, Susannah, Of Mice and Men, Willie Stark...
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 29:55
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the horn billed toucan will occasionally, and discreetly, break the sound barrier
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 03:25
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 29:33
We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...
- Added: Feb 10, 2011
- Length: 58:59
A founding father of bebop and modern jazz, wife Nellie called his style "Melodius Thunk."
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 03, 2011
- Length: 19:17
- Purchases: 1
New EP by Seattle-based indie folk-pop band in stores on Feb 1. 5 great tracks for any AAA/Folk/Eclectic music shows or news/talk interstitials. "...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 21:25
- Purchases: 1
We sit down with the legendary Charlie Parr to find out the story behind his first guitar, learn about Piedmont Blues, and discover some things abo...
Bought by KPVL and mnartists.org
- Added: Sep 30, 2010
- Length: 33:53
- Purchases: 2
We know Haydn, the wonderful composer of symphonies and string quartets, but did you know he also wrote some terrific Violin Concertos? Violinist ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: :25
Michael Goldberg and his thoughts on concerts.
- Added: Jul 21, 2010
- Length: 02:54
- Added: Jul 19, 2010
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
The title of Yuja Wang’s new recording is “Transformation.” It’s a fitting title – especially for one of the Scarlatti keyboard sonatas, which she...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :22
A drive-in with a haunted jukebox, circa 1963.
- Added: May 09, 2010
- Length: 03:51
Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:42
- Purchases: 3
There are coffee breaks, lunch breaks, and at one point in his career, conductor Lorin Maazel found the need to take a Mahler break. Use this 28 s...
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: :28
This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival.
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 06:18
Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Scholar Mark Levine and journalist Suroosh Alvi catal...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: :20
Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Scholar Mark Levine and journalist Suroosh Alvi catal...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 01:00
Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Scholar Mark Levine and journalist Suroosh Alvi catal...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 52:35
