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How do performers and conductors choose the way they shape the music they play? It's different for each performer. Some look to history or academ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :19
How does one interpret music? How do performers and conductors decide how to shape and craft the music they play? Conductor Gerard Schwarz likes ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :20
American composer David Diamond wrote in what can comfortably be called the "romantic" tradition. He enjoyed getting rich, full-bodied sounds from...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :24
Conductor Gerard Schwarz makes several connections with Mahler's First Symphony, especially the music’s Viennese and Eastern European flavors. He a...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
Alan Hovhaness is an American composer of Armenian heritage with a fascination for the Far East. He's best known for his symphony, "Mysterious Mou...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :21
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
For your On-Air Fundraising: Think of this as a mini-fundraising "time-out" (or drop-in) to insert a little bit of musical insight, radio-craft, an...
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUHF, WSKG, Wisconsin Public Radio, North State Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2009
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 11
There are many good causes to believe in - and work for. And these days, there are just as many ways to make your voice heard. Pianist Helene Gri...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :17
Although the practice is as old as music itself, taking a piece of music for one instrument and adapting it to another still causes scowls and glar...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :19
There's your driver's license, your passport, and if you're clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, your clarinet sound is another proof of I-D. Use this 2...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :26
Very few things could be duller than a discussion about violin bows, unless you're a violinist. But a good bow does make a difference. Violinist ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2008
- Length: :24
20th century Russian composers like Dmitri Shostakovich were expected to write what the Party defined as "proper" Russian music. And even though S...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
Composer Jennifer Higdon is one of the busiest, most performed and most acclaimed American composers today. From her vantage point, she understand...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
The Overture to an opera can serve several purposes - it can get the audience in the mood and set the tone for the drama about to unfold. It can a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :27
In Beethoven's 6th Symphony, known as his "Pastoral" Symphony, each movement depicts a very specific moment in nature, from a scene by a brook to a...
- Added: Feb 29, 2008
- Length: :22
You may know Leopold Stokowski as a conductor and for his role in the Disney classic, Fantasia. He was also an organist on a mission to bring grea...
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: :21
Chopin's Ballades for piano scale some of the hefty dramatic and emotional heights that personify the "romantic" era of composition from the late 1...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jul 31, 2007
- Length: :31
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jul 30, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
While Alan Hovhaness' music has a distinct and recognizable sound and texture, it's the sum of many different cultures and nationalities. Harpist ...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Mar 01, 2007
- Length: :35
- Purchases: 2
The idea of a keyboard instrument being a soloist in a concerto is obvious to us today, but in Bach's time, the keyboard usually played politely in...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Mar 01, 2007
- Length: :20
- Purchases: 2
Sergie Rachmaninoff's music has been called everything from sappy and sentimental to over-done romantic gush. Pianist Stephen Hough strongly disag...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 2
Who knows best? When it comes to classical music, conductor Roy Goodman says it's not the conductor, the first violinist or the music critic. It'...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Nov 01, 2006
- Length: :35
- Purchases: 2
Roy Goodman offers his respect for trumpet players who play those stratospheric high notes in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto Number 2, but points out ...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Oct 30, 2006
- Length: :32
- Purchases: 2
