PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 58:05
China is challenging America's historical preeminence in space exploration. At some point in the future, America may be still trying to get to huma...
Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, Radio Newark, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more
- Added: Sep 16, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
Evidence is mounting that a Planet 9 exists in the outer region of our solar system.
Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 8
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will perform a sample and return mission to the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.
Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more
- Added: Feb 22, 2014
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 8
Fresh water as a resource is under constant threat by over-consumption, toxins, pollutants and waste from industrial and agricultural production. I...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 05:06
What makes American music American? Composer and violinist Mark O’Connor tries to tell that story – or history – in his “Appalachia Waltz.” Use th...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :33
Composer Mark O’Connor says there’s a “stir fry” element that defines American music. People from different lands stirred their own musical experi...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :28
The “Poem” by Charles Tomlinson Griffes is, in a way, one of the quintessential American works for flute and orchestra. But flutist Carol Wincenc ...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: :14
The “Symphonic Dances for Orchestra” is one of the best known works Rachmaninoff wrote after a long and punishing creative drought. The Dances rep...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: :25
Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff suffered the musical equivalent of writer’s block for three agonizing years. When he finally emerged from his creativ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: :22
The PBS Series, "Keeping Score" returned with a series of three programs, each devoted to a single composer and one of their pivotal pieces of musi...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: :30
As the English horn player for the New York Philharmonic, Thomas Stacy says he's been privileged to work with some of the finest conductors from se...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
The challenge to successfully bringing off a virtuoso concerto is as challenging to the conductor as it is to the soloist... well almost as challen...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 25, 2009
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
The Piano Concerto No. 2 by Liszt basically consists of one short theme that the composer recycles multiple times. While the melody is continually...
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: :20
- Purchases: 1
Composer Alexander Zemlinsky was one of several German composers who ran afoul of the German government in the early 20th century. Conductor James...
- Added: Jul 28, 2008
- Length: :24
Alexander Zemlinsky is one of several early 20th century German composers whose music was suppressed by the Nazis prior to World War Two. Conducto...
- Added: Jul 28, 2008
- Length: :23
