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Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Debilitating Liszt)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Huge. Blockbuster. Larger than life. Those are just a few of the ways you could describe the Piano Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt. Awadagin P...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Who's on First)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Performers like to put their individual stamp on a piece of music, especially in a concerto, where the solo part is the star of the show. Violinis...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Little Lenny Bernstein)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
The "what if" question game is always an interesting game to play. What if Leonard Bernstein had pursued composing over conducting? What would he...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Mozart in Sync)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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It may sound like Mozart is easy to play, but just about any performer will grimace and tell you his music is about as tough as it gets. In the Vi...

Bought by WHRV and WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Brahms Tight Space)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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It's always tempting to fill up your plate at the Sunday buffet table or at the salad bar. You know you can go back for seconds... or even thirds....

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Better than Bellini)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Composed while Chopin was still a teenager, Pianist Garrick Ohlsson calls Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 "as great a masterpiece as anybody has ever ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - David Starobin (Sor Winner)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Spanish composer Fernando Sor wrote a ton of music for the guitar. On the surface, they're mostly short, sweet and delightful little pieces. Guit...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - David Starobin (Wide Ranging Giuliani)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Some composers go unnoticed, or become forgotten for a variety of reasons. Mauro Giuliani composed in Beethoven's shadow, but guitarist David Star...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :32
  • 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 - Jennifer Higdon (British Invasion)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Why does a composer write music the way they do? Jennifer Higdon says influences come from just about anywhere, and the road to becoming a classic...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Chopin for Last)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The "People's Favorite": pianist Garrick Ohlsson talks about the universal popularity and mood altering music by Chopin. It's like "dessert" -- wh...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - David Starobin (Virtuoso Dash)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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More than a dozen composers have written music based on an engaging melody by Nicolo Paganini. Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini is th...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Beethoven's Lab)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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While some might say Beethoven is best known for his 9th Symphony, or the famous first four notes of his Symphony Number 5, pianist Garrick Ohlsson...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Polish Hero)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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They "contain canons buried in flowers." "Pianist Garrick Ohlsson talks about the mixed messages contained within the Chopin Polonaises for piano....

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Banana Pudding
From: Bria Dolnick
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interviews with banana pudding lovers in North Carolina

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Feb 19, 2007
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Brahms Juicy Meat)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Good News: you don't need an advanced degree, or have even played an instrument, to enjoy classical music. Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman passes o...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 23, 2006
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Street kids in Cape Town
From: Mikko Kapanen
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Reality, hopes and dreams of kids on the streets of Cape Town

  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 09:31
Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Naughty But Legal)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Pianist Stephen Hough talks about his approach to making transcriptions of well known music. It's a long-standing tradition that often got out of ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :32
  • 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 - 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 - David Russell (Play it Slow)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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"Asturias" is one of those rhythmically passionate Spanish guitar pieces you've heard a hundred times, but may not know by name. But when you've h...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :23
  • 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 - Martin Pearlman (Messiah Twist)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
Tejidos Culturales #8: Culture and La Sierra...Taylor Ranch part 2
From: KRZA
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Eight in a 13 part series focussing on culture in the San Luis Valley, this is part 2 in looking at La Sierra or Taylor Ranch which was illegaly cl...

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KWCW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2006
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 2

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