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Virtuoso Voices - Jennifer Higdon (Turning Down Work)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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There's an old saying in the music business: never turn down work. Composer Jennifer Higdon maintains a full schedule of commissions, and sometim...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (After the Storm)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Beethoven's 4th Piano Sonata is one of the longest of his 32 sonatas, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson says every minute is rich with melody, musical in...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (In the Beginning)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Sarah Chang
How does the musical life of a child prodigy begin? For Sarah Chang, playing the violin was simply a hobby. Use this 24 second clip to introduce ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (Young & Fearless)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Overnight success does happen but it's more myth than reality. Violinist Sarah Chang made her debut when she was 8 years old. Her success that ev...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :18
  • Purchases: 2
SxSw from the sidewalks of Austin
From: David Weinberg
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Music and Mayhem from South by Southwest

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 23, 2007
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Bang, Bang, Bang)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Did you ever want to learn to play a musical instrument? It's not too late and not as difficult as you might think. Evelyn Glennie has just the r...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Interior Decorator)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Some Rock 'n Roll musicians are notorious for going on the road and destroying their hotel rooms. Violinist Hilary Hahn doesn't trash her room whe...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Carnegie Hall Horror)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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No matter how much you practice and prepare for a concert, anything can happen on stage, like the time a bottom section of Richard Stoltzman's clar...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 22, 2006
  • Length: :43
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Nightmare at Carnegie)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
No matter how much you practice and prepare for a concert, anything can happen on stage, like the time pieces of Richard Stoltzman's clarinet fell ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 22, 2006
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Over the Top)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Before Madonna, Brittany and Paris, there was Godowsky. Leopold Godowsky was a piano virtuoso who dazzled audiences around the world in the early ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - David Russell (Pujol's Clatter)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Sometimes music is not just about melody, it's about creating a scene or portraying a character that often redefines the boundaries of "beauty". G...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (After Dinner Chocolates)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Classical Music isn't always SO SERIOUS. Pianist Stephen Hough has made a specialty of playing little novelty works, known as "miniatures." They'...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Andrew Litton (Walton's Henry V)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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If you have any doubts about the quality and integrity of film music, and the music's ability to stand on its own without the picture, composer Wil...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Sep 27, 2006
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Andrew Litton (Liszt the Ladies' Man)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What kind of composer was Franz Liszt? He was "lady slayer" composer according to conductor Andrew Litton. In this clip, the conductor talks abou...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Sep 27, 2006
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Gil's Big Break)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The teenage violinist Gil Shaham was well on his way to a promising career, when one day he received a surprise opportunity that immediately change...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2