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NYC’s best lounge band performing the New American Songbook
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 16:13
Syrian vocalist working at the intersection of Arab, Jazz and Improvised Music.
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 17:54
Alex Meixner: Acclaimed accordionist playing jazz, Bulgarian dance music, Cleveland-style polkas and more.
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 19:49
The floating sustainable greenhouse in New York City
- Added: Jul 29, 2008
- Length: 17:07
After 30 years of free higher education in Germany, public universities are bankrupt. Conservatives want to introduce a US-style system of tuition ...
Bought by KGOU
- Added: Jun 21, 2008
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 1
Riccardo Muti is the new (named May 2008) Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Previously he led the Philadelphia Orchestra and (the)...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :31
Knowing the story or its inspiration is one way to get inside the music, but conductor Riccardo Muti says there's a more basic approach. Use this ...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
When violinist Hilary Hahn recorded the Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1, she went against a long standing tradition with the concerto. Most violini...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :28
Conductor Marin Alsop has recorded most of Brahms' orchestral works during the last few years. Although Brahms' symphonies are epic in both sound ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :19
In Washington State a battle over consitutional rights surrounding Plan Ba rages on. This is currently on a one-way road for the Supreme Court.
- Added: Feb 16, 2008
- Length: 03:41
Many of Seattle's homeless choose to live in a notorious wooded area called the Jungle.
Bought by WRNC-LP
- Added: Feb 16, 2008
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 1
With the U.S. economy in crisis, German investors wonder how a recession would affect their markets.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 03:08
Pianist Murray Perahia devoted a number of years to only studying and playing Bach. It was a time of great learning and healing in his life as be ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :27
Performing music is probably one of the only professions where the longer you play, the better you get - the harder it gets. It's a phenomenon tha...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :18
If there were a "supporting musician" category in Mozart's Piano Concertos, it would probably be the wind section, especially the clarinets. When ...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :15
- Purchases: 1
It's the bane of all musicians whether they play professionally or took lessons as a kid. Practicing, especially those endless and unrewarding sca...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :21
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
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...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 2
Carlos Salzedo was an innovative man of the harp. He performed, he taught, he built instruments and composed. As a composer, Yolanda Kondonassis ...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :31
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 2
Mozart originally conceived many of his Piano Concertos as works he would both play and conduct. Occasionally, pianist Maurizio Pollini performs t...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :33
- Purchases: 2
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
There is ample evidence that composer Aaron Copland wanted his music performed straight, as is, with little added emotion or nuance by the performe...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jun 20, 2007
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
Aaron Copland is called the "Father of American classical music" for his ability to set American landscapes and the American spirit to music. Befo...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jun 20, 2007
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
In Classical Music, "Impressionism" means the music of Debussy and Ravel - and light washes of sound and pastel-like colors. Though impressionism ...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jun 20, 2007
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
