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Is Legalizing Drugs an Option?
From: Anton Foek
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Interview with Prof. McCoy, University of Wisconsin

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2007
  • Length: 15:24
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (All-Liszt)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Composer Franz Liszt is best known as a composer, virtuoso performer and ladies' man. Pianist Stephen Hough says you could also call him an innova...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jul 31, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Chopin's Legendary Ballades)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Haydn's Children)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Rachmaninoff's Trousers)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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You don't need to be Russian to play Rachmaninoff, although some well-meaning Russians have been known to make that nationalistic claim. Still, pi...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (Mozart not Muzak)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 is very well known, primarily because of its Second Movement. Besides the concert hall and CD, you're also likely to...

Bought by WHRV and WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (No Mozart Reruns)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Two of the most frequently used key strokes on the computer are "copy" and "paste." It probably saves us hours of time each week. Pianist Maurizi...

Bought by WHRV and WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (Mozart Without Conductor)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Mozart originally conceived many of his Piano Concertos as works he would both play and conduct. Occasionally, pianist Maurizio Pollini performs t...

Bought by WHRV and WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Nervous Composers)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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If you're a conductor, it's helpful to have a living composer at your side to answer questions about their music that may come up during rehearsals...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (Universal Chopin)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Before Pope John Paul II, Poland's most celebrated national hero was Frederic Chopin. His music was a source of inspiration and comfort for a coun...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 1
Keeping Carbon Honest
From: Steve Zwick
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Congragulations! You bought carbon offsets! But how do you know you're really carbon neutral? The only way is to prove that the offsets you purc...

  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:56
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Hovhaness World)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
Virtuoso Voices - Martin Pearlman (Bach's B-5 Shocker)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
Bill Moyers on Media Reform 2007
From: Steve Schultze
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Bill Moyers talks in detail about corporate media and media reform.

Bought by KWCW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Rhapsody Redefined)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
Virtuoso Voices - Martin Pearlman (Messiah Twist)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
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Recycling one's own music was a common practice in Handel's day. Interestingly, or strangely, one of the best known choruses from Handel's Messiah...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KWAX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Martin Pearlman (Messiah 360)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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There's a longstanding debate over the appropriate time of year to perform Handel's "Messiah." With its Christmas and Easter messages, is it more ...

Bought by WKYU, WITF, New England Public Media, KISU, and KWAX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 5
Virtuoso Voices - Martin Pearlman (Early American Christmas)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Some of America's earliest classical music came from the Moravians, a German Protestant sect, who settled in isolated regions of Pennsylvania and N...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KWAX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 3
Johnny Cash: Live at San Quentin
From: Joyride Media
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One-hour music intensive documentary looks back on Johnny Cash's historic 1969 concert at San Quentin State Prison.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, Prairie Public, KGLT, WNIJ, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Goodman's Mission)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Bach Never Compromised)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
From: Janis Shields
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Exploring the enduring "attraction" of war

Bought by WCPN, KPFT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 3
Voices of Courage in the Civil Rights Movement
From: Janis Shields
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Mary Frances Berry, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania explores how we can achieve true social and economic justice in American...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 30:51

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