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Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 06:05
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 10:53
- Purchases: 4
Now we’re going to hear from a young woman who recently completed her college education. Kadie Kelly was a stay-at-home mom when she first went bac...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
Prolific pianist and composer Jason Moran fuses stride piano, avant-garde jazz and sampled sounds. Hear the 2010 MacArthur Fellow "a Texas computer...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, KFOK-LPFM and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 6
For your Fundraising campaign, violinist Eugene Drucker talks about the reasons he loves classical music and asks your listeners to consider their ...
Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- 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, New Hampshire Public Radio, WHRV and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 25
After a performer learns the notes and digs deep to find out what’s at the heart of the music, he or she is ready to go on stage. But there’s one ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :23
The music by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt* resonates with many people well beyond Estonia. Conductor Kristjan Järvi says the secret to his succ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :27
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 05:10
There are a group of teenagers in Anchorage trying to help other teens stay out of the court system
- Added: Mar 30, 2010
- Length: 04:33
It's not unusual for performers to devote themselves to a short list of composers. Some have even taken a year off to only study and play one comp...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :23
Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings has become the American anthem for peace and comfort during times of national sadness and loss. Barber also wro...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Length: :20
- Purchases: 1
Tchaikovsky wrote his piano trio as a memorial tribute to a colleague, friend and mentor – Nicolay Rubinstein. In this musical memorial, violinist...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
Consider spending time on death row and turning that experience into the drive to get a doctorate?
- Added: Nov 16, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Violinist Joshua Bell has a CD – "At Home with Friends" – where he recaptures the musical get-togethers he hosts in his Manhattan home with friends...
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: :22
Since leaving the New York Philharmonic in 2009, conductor Lorin Maazel has been as busy as ever, but never too busy to look back at his seven year...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :27
- Purchases: 1
The name of the piece is "Mirror in Mirror." It's a seven minute work by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers describes it as...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :26
From the Darfur Radio Project: we check in with Sudanese at home and in the US to hear their opinions on the ICC decision to issue an arrest warran...
- Added: Apr 05, 2009
- Length: 05:51
Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :44
Violinist Julia Fischer's relationship with Bach goes well beyond playing his music in concerts and on recordings. Use this 21 second clip to intr...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :21
Some concertos contain multiple technical and virtuosic challenges. Playing through them all can be an exhausting physical experience, similar to ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :26
"Who were your influences?" That's one of the questions artists and performers from all fields hate to be asked. It may have to do with how many ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :26
To get an orchestra of 60 or 100 players to play like one is the eternal challenge for a conductor. Every orchestra is different but conductor JoA...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :29
- Added: Jun 17, 2008
- Length: :59
Arnold Schoenberg pioneered a composition method and style known as "12-tone music". Melodies and harmonies were created from a predetermined sequ...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
