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Virtuoso Voices: Funders - Alisa Weilerstein (Rice Krispie Cello)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
Caption: Alisa Weilerstein
For your Fundraising campaign, cellist Alicia Weilerstein remembers her first cello -- made out of cardboard. Use this 28 second clip as a fundrai...

Bought by WSMC, WWNO, KVNO, WKCP, Vermont Public and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 9
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Anna Netrebko (Over the Counter Relief)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
Caption: Anna Netrebko
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, and WMNR


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Roy Goodman (Hope for the Best)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
Caption: Roy Goodman
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, WFSU, KVNO, WMNR, and WSKG


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 5
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Pascal Roge (No Bad Pianos)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
Caption: Pascal Roge, Credit: Mary Robert
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, WSKG, WMNR, Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 6
Rude sea mammals
From: Paula Kahumbu
Caption: New born, Credit: Andrew Kahumbu
A team of Kenyans visit Horsey Sound on the Norfolk coast, England, to discover the joys and rude sounds of seals.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
Crowd-sourcing Biological Solutions Through Gaming
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Fold.It screen shot
A web-based video game called FoldIt uses crowd-sourcing in the hopes of solving some very big -- er, tiny -- biological problems.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:17
JazzStories: Bobby McFerrin
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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Bobby McFerrin has spent four decades breaking ground in jazz vocals – and his music always feels fresh. Hear how Miles Davis changed his life.

Bought by WMOT, CJRT-FM, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 8
JazzStories: Sam Rivers – Reedman, pianist, composer
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Sam Rivers, Credit: Frank Stewart
Sam Rivers has sounded his horn across six decades of jazz with Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, and Dizzy Gillespie. Producer David Goren brings us an i...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, WNCU, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 6
JazzStories: Randy Weston — From Brooklyn to the Berkshires and Back
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Randy Weston , Credit: Frank Stewart
Pianist Randy Weston has seen a lot people and places in his life. Born in Brooklyn in 1926 and served in the US Army during World War II. But it ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WEZU, KPVL, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 8
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Canadian Brass (Canadian Bacon)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
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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, Kansas Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 7
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Marin Alsop (Language Barrier)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
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Use any of these Funder Spot choices during your Classical Music Fundraising programming, and especially before or after playing any performance co...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, New Hampshire Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 10
Virtuoso Voices: Funders - Ransom Wilson (I Play Flute)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
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For your Fundraising campaign, flutist and conductor Ransom Wilson makes two friendly requests to your listeners: please don't refer to him and hi...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WKCP, WMNR, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 11
Good Radiation (NPR Rap)
From: WTMD
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Steve Yasko interviews Adam Cole, creator of "Good Radiation", a rap homage to NPR! Watch the video for "Good Radiation" here: http://www.youtube....

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
Maggots are our friends
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: The Amazing World of African Insects
Caption: Mass of maggots
One of the most disgusting creatures is in fact one of the most useful. Join Paula Kahumbu and Dino Martins on a smelly journey of discovery.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Misha Dichter (Mind Meld)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Misha Dichter, Credit: Stefan Cohen
A regular part of Misha Dichter’s performance schedule includes playing music for two pianos with his wife, Cipa Dichter. The two practically grew...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Anna Netrebko (Over the Counter)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Anna Netrebko, Credit: Annie Leibovitz
Got a cold – feel one coming on? Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has an over-the-counter remedy she guarantees every time. Use this 20 second clip t...

  • Added: May 30, 2010
  • Length: :20
Virtuoso Voices - Danielle de Niese (Song and Dance)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Danielle de Niese, Credit: hansspeekenbrink-nl
The career of soprano Danielle de Niese really took off when she performed the role of Cleopatra in the Handel opera, Julius Caesar. Her operatic ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :25
BWNR Episode 35
From: BengalsWorld News Radio
Series: BengalsWorld News Radio
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Cincinnati Bengals talk. NFL talk. Sports talk.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2010
  • Length: 41:46
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Tonight Show Biz)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Hilary Hahn
Violinist Hilary Hahn performed on the Tonight Show in March 2010. Her strategy for playing in front of a huge audience of 100's of thousands is to...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: :37
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Glennie Guinea Pigs)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Evelyn Glennie
Percussionist Evelyn Glennie had formal music training all her life, including attending the Royal Academy of Music in London. Still, some of her ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: :24
Virtuoso Voices - Vadim Repin (Who Spoke First)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Vadim Repin
It might not have been a "fly on the wall" moment, but it would be interesting to know who spoke first when three leading classical music soloists,...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Pascal Roge (Locked Out)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Pascal Roge
All children go through phases and stages. They can be cute, adorable, precocious and obnoxious. Pianist Pascal Roge went through each of these p...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: :15
  • Purchases: 1
Lipstick from a bug
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: The Amazing World of African Insects
Caption: Cochineal Bug
You can't help but love insects when you listen to Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins. In this short piece he explains the natural history of the Coc...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:37
Leonard Nimoy
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Legendary actor talks to me about his time with Company Of Angels, a theater company he helped found and a special event that he is a part of on Oc...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2009
  • Length: 15:54
It Might Get Loud - Audio EPK tools for Film Coverage
From: Andy Cahn
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"It Might Get Loud" film excerpts and interview clips featuring the star guitarists Jack White, Jimmy Page and The Edge, plus director Davis Guggen...

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 36:06
  • Purchases: 1