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CONTACT! at the the NY Phil Biennial: Beyond Recall
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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Matthias Pintscher leads a concert of US premieres with members of the New York Philharmonic at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. All work...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:24
All that Jazz with Carla Bley
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Carla Bley, Credit: D.D. Rider
Carla Bley is a prolific and agile composer and jazz pianist. She talks about her career--from Birdland to Montreux.

Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1472 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04/16/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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For the fourth year in a row, Hacksaw Jazz broadcast from Boston Street, to the south of the main stage at the 2015 Chandler Jazz Festival, happeni...

Bought by WYAP, WVBI-LP, KPVL, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:52
  • Purchases: 4
The Rails on Art of the Song
From: Art of the Song
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British music royalty, Kami Thompson and James Walbourne have combined both their personal and musical lives to form the super duo The Rails. They...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Composer John Williams discusses the art of scoring films.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: John Williams
Over his fifty-plus year career, John Williams has written many of the most famous scores in Hollywood film history.

Bought by KGUA, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
A conversation about Folk Arts: Grassroots self-expression
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Barry Bergey with Mavis Staples, Credit: Tom Pich
The NEA's recently retired Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and tradition...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Bonjour Chanson Series 16, Episode 77
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 16
Caption: Yepa, courtesy of Antipodes Music, Credit: Nagi Fero &Marguerite Bruchet
A cool new French music duo Yépa, and a well-established artist, William Sheller are introduced in English together with other very talented singer...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 16, Episode 76
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 16
Caption: Faby Perier, Credit: by courtesy of Faby Perier
Romance, the fight against discrimination, a thirst for social justice, these are some of the subjects of the Francophone songs in this program. A...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 15, Episode 75
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 15
Caption: Fredda by courtesy of Martingale Music, Credit: Sébastien Perron
From thousands of Francophone songs we have selected 6 that will speak to you. We tell you about the artists and songs in English. No need to spea...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Irish Step Dancer Kevin Doyle
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kevin Doyle dancing at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert
2014 NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Doyle talks about his passion for Irish Step Dancing.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with ETHEL founding members Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: ETHEL, Credit: James Ewing
Believing that music is a unifying force, the string quartet ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions. The result is musica...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with sound architect Bora Yoon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bora Yoon, Credit: Leslie Van Stelte.
Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Vijay Iyer: Jazz in the 21st Century
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Where is jazz headed in a new century? With the pianist Vijay Iyer as guide, newly tenured as a professor at Harvard, it tends toward the experimen...

Bought by KMUW and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Jennifer Pickering-Founder and director of Lake Eden Arts Festival
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Boukman Eksperyans, Credit: Courtesy of LEAF
For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire Radio - Episode 252 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Mechanical engineer/musician Christine McKinley, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Math genius JASON PADGETT, mechanical engineer/musician CHRISTINE MCKINLEY, and music by SWAN SOVEREIGN.

Bought by WCPN, WRIR, KUT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Live Wire Radio - Episode 250 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Actress Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, and music from Ages and Ages.

Bought by WCPN, WRIR, KUT, KCPW Salt Lake City, KUOW and more


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
05: Florasonic (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Walk through the Experimental Sound Studio's Florasonic installation in the new episode.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Bluegrass Review #1419. Program for May 3 - 9, 2014.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Inspired by a recent broadcast that featured story songs, towards the beginning of the show we hit the mother lode of story songs: those that tell ...

Bought by KSJD, KEOS, WOUB, KSKQ, KPVL and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 245
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actress/author Annabelle Gurwitch, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Actress author ANNABELLE GURWITCH, shoe designer D'WAYNE EDWARDS, and music by LOVE GIGANTIC.

Bought by KSRQ, Rhythm & News Service, KUNV, 90.5 WESA, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 245 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actress/author Annabelle Gurwitch, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Actress author ANNABELLE GURWITCH, shoe designer D'WAYNE EDWARDS, and music by LOVE GIGANTIC.

Bought by WCPN, KUT, KUOW, Northwest Public Broadcasting, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 5
Song Story S0.E1 - Eric Ginsberg's "Little Love Notes" (pre-season sneak-peek)
From: Eric Ginsberg
Series: Song Story
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Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This first pre-season sneak-peek features Song Story host, Er...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 10:54
El Sistema: Music Lessons to Rebuild the World
From: Open Source
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El Sistema is not an instruction method so much as a shared conviction: that every child wants to make music, and can. It has big social implicatio...

Bought by KWMR and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 2
Over The Back Fence, March 2014
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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This marks the 20th anniversary of "Over The Back Fence". "Over The Back Fence" is a community variety show that happens the 2nd Friday of every m...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:31:06
  • Purchases: 1
A conversation with Anthony Braxton
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Anthony Braxton, Credit: Photo by Michael G. Stewart
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 40:46
A conversation with Keith Jarrett
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Keith Jarrett, Credit: Rose Anne Colavito
Pianist Keith Jarrett - letting the music happen.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 34:27