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"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 6
“My father forced me to go to dancing school and take accordion lessons. I was a lousy dancer, couldn’t play, but there was this yearning for that ...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 6
Since the 1960s, writer and producer Nat Hentoff has confronted the question "Is jazz black music.' He discusses the issue in a 2008 conversation w...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 6
The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 07:24
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
"Moody's Mood for Love" is one of the most memorable and recognizable solos in jazz history. But for James Moody, the song contains a bigger history.
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Jan 20, 2011
- Length: 08:15
- Purchases: 8
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 ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 12
For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Andre Watts talks about the constant presence classical music has in our lives thanks to Public Radio. Use t...
Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 5
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 ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 8
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, KUHF, NPR Illinois and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 23
For your On-Air Fundraising: Think of this as a mini-fundraising "time-out" (or drop-in) to insert a little bit of musical insight, radio-craft, an...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 3
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has a recording of songs by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. It’s not just a Russian themed disc – it’s more about m...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: :18
Actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin was also a composer. His song, "Smile," is a standard and a favorite of balladeers…and violinists. The lyrics...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :25
You'll hear some of the most brilliant virtuosic flourishes about midway through Debussy's First Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra. They're almo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: :24
After Eric Lowen was forced to stop playing guitar due to ALS, David Glaser started playing with the duo.
- Added: Dec 02, 2008
- Length: 04:12
It's hard to describe the magical dialogue that takes place between the strings and the winds at the beginning of the Symphony No. 2 by Sibelius. ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :25
"Blue Cathedral," written by Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed contemporary orchestral works in the U-S. She composed it with her broth...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
Dvorak's formal musical education included the standard lessons and training, and his skills are clearly evident. But Conductor Myung-Whun Chung s...
- Added: Jul 31, 2008
- Length: :23
How do you get your day started? A strong cup of coffee, maybe a good jog? A perfect, sugary doughnut? Morning Edition? Pianist Anne-Marie McDe...
- Added: Jul 31, 2008
- Length: :20
There's often a story behind a story behind the music we love, but not always. Mozart never really tells us how he came to write his Violin Sonata...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :28
Pianist Orli Shaham says Dvorak's music is like a beautiful onion - every time you peel off a layer, or look beyond the surface of the music, you a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :25
With her constant jet setting from state to state, and continent to continent, violinist Sarah Chang says she's become a "frequent flyer mileage qu...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :24
The Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian was once very popular and championed by several violin super heroes of the past, including Jascha Heifetz....
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :20
You may have heard the story of the young clarinetist who brought Brahms out of retirement to write for the instrument. Fittingly, Brahms' clarine...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :28
The word "spiritual" continues to have a wide range of applications when discussing religion and the 21st century lifestyle. Conductor Herbert Blo...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :23
