PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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Program I: Origins
How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...
Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 52:40
- Purchases: 27
For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Awadagin Pratt relates how classical music is, and has always been, a constant presence in our lives. Use t...
Bought by WWNO, WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :35
- Purchases: 11
For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Andre Watts talks about the constant presence classical music has in our lives thanks to Public Radio. Use t...
Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 5
For your Fundraising campaign, conductor Semyon Bychkov invites your listeners to join him in making great music by supporting classical music on P...
Bought by WSMC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :12
- Purchases: 6
For your Fundraising campaign, conductor Hugh Wolff talks about his classical responsibility to get the music right. Use this 22 second clip as a ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 4
For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...
Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 5
For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...
Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois, Iowa Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 9
For your Fundraising campaign, guitarist Sharon Isbin asks your station's listeners to keep your station musically fluent. Use this 20 second clip ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :20
- Purchases: 4
For your Fundraising campaign, Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis shares her excitement for the variety of flavors and textures in classical music, in add...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :31
- Purchases: 23
For your Fundraising campaign, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter reminds your listeners that classical music is a constant presence in their lives thank...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 4
For your Fundraising campaign, Sir James Galway reminds your listeners they are instrumental in the musical success of your station. Use this 22 s...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 4
The price of concert tickets can be daunting, but conductor Mark Elder says there’s an even bigger obstacle to the concert going experience. It’s ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :26
You can make the piano sound loud and thunderous in two ways. There’s the “pounding and banging” school, but that can create a kind of musical mus...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :24
The term “virtuoso” has come to mean many things over the years. These days, it seems to describe someone who can play very, very fast, but not ne...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :28
Recordings serve as a permanent record, and most musicians only want their best performances preserved for a lifetime. While some seek perfection ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :19
Brigg Fair is one of the shining musical lights from the composing pen of Frederick Delius. Mark Elder loves his music, but says it needs a little...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :28
How does a conductor or any musician for that matter, choose the right tempo. How fast, or how slow, should the music go? Conductor Mark Elder fi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :23
One of the things you might notice in recordings conducted by Mark Elder – especially with English music – is tempo. He plays British music faster...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :24
Violinist Midori is celebrating her 28th year of music making – and one of her recent projects includes playing more contemporary music. Playing n...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :21
You may be old enough to remember American Bandstand with Dick Clark, where each week a couple of teenagers would rate a new record. From that seg...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :29
There are several ways to get to know a composer – the most effective way is to listen, and listen a lot, to the music. But when the composer is s...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :29
You’ve probably seen several, if not dozens of paintings by the Dutch painter, Vincent Gogh. But have you ever looked at a Van Gogh close up – rea...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :26
There’s plenty of room for passion and emotion in Tchaikovsky’s music. But the key is knowing how far to take the drama. That’s an especially rel...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :28
Cellists lament the fact that Mozart did not write a solo sonata or concerto for their instrument. Zuill Bailey says cellists got the next best th...
Bought by KUHF
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
Cellists thank their lucky stars for the wide range of music written for their instrument. The cello is often the composer’s voice for a variety o...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :24
