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The Silk Road Tour is cellist Yo-Yo Ma's ongoing quest to discover the cultural connections covering the large swath of land between the Mediterran...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :32
Finding ways to keep music fresh is a performing musician's ongoing challenge, especially with a work they've played hundreds of times. Cellist Yo...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :28
It's a long road to establish a career in music, much less going on to become a major player. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma offers these guidelines for what mu...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :27
It was a busy week in New York for cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He played a big concert in Carnegie Hall, and attended several important meetings the next da...
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- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :37
- Purchases: 1
Pianist Murray Perahia devoted a number of years to only studying and playing Bach. It was a time of great learning and healing in his life as be ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :27
Performing music is probably one of the only professions where the longer you play, the better you get - the harder it gets. It's a phenomenon tha...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :18
If there were a "supporting musician" category in Mozart's Piano Concertos, it would probably be the wind section, especially the clarinets. When ...
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- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :15
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It's the bane of all musicians whether they play professionally or took lessons as a kid. Practicing, especially those endless and unrewarding sca...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :21
All performers face numerous pressures, from career choices to wardrobe selection. Young musicians and teenage actors are often pressed to grow up...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :22
The Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian was once very popular and championed by several violin super heroes of the past, including Jascha Heifetz....
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :20
Some composers are influenced by other composers and earlier styles and trends. That was surely the case with Jean Sibelius, but conductor Herbert...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :41
- Added: Oct 20, 2007
- Length: 24:00
- Purchases: 1
Audio tour of a children's home in Bulgaria
- Added: Oct 08, 2007
- Length: 10:10
Short feature about the Mbira, or African thumb piano, for BBC Radio Oxford
- Added: Oct 08, 2007
- Length: 07:49
The surprising wonder of routine in the making of a peanut butter sandwich
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 08, 2007
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
As talented and exceptionally skilled as today's orchestra musicians may be, there are plenty of living composers whose music still presents a chal...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
When composer John Adams attends a concert that features his music, he looks forward to hearing what the audience has to say -- as long as they don...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :17
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What makes a composer's music resonate with the audience? Composer John Adams offers a starting point to this ultimately unanswerable question. U...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :29
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"Back Seat Drivers" are bad for those of us in the driver's seat, and they can be just as distracting for composers. Conductor Bernard Haitink tal...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :29
Anton Bruckner's music is out of place, and maybe out of sync in our current fast-paced world. Conductor Bernard Haitink says Bruckner's luxurious...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :24
Anton Bruckner's most popular work is his Symphony No.4, but conductor Bernard Haitink says he's under the spell of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Use...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :19
One-hundred thousand Chinese immigrated to America during the second half of the nineteenth century. They first came as miners during the Californi...
- Added: Aug 06, 2007
- Length: 03:12
Many recordings these days are made from live concert performances. The pressure and excitement of a live setting often brings out a more spontane...
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- Added: Aug 01, 2007
- Length: :22
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If you've heard or read only one thing about Haydn, it's probably that he is the undisputed "Father of the Symphony". Conductor Roy Goodman thinks...
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- Added: Jul 30, 2007
- Length: :30
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Violinist Gil Shaham became an overnight success when he filled in for Itzhak Perlman at the last moment. Excited after a champagne sipping flight...
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- Added: May 30, 2007
- Length: :28
- Purchases: 1
