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Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (No Age Limit)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Audiences are thrilled by young musicians, especially child prodigies who toss off virtuosic phrases with childlike ease and exuberance. Violinist...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Jennifer Higdon (Blue Catharsis)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Blue Cathedral is composer Jennifer Higdon's most popular work, receiving more than 200 performances each year. Originally, she had no intention o...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - David Starobin (New Music Advice)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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New music can be complex and difficult to process at first, second and even third hearings. Guitarist David Starobin has spent much of his career ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • 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....

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
SxSw from the sidewalks of Austin
From: David Weinberg
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Music and Mayhem from South by Southwest

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 23, 2007
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Debussy the Tailor)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Yolanda Kondonassis talks about one of classical music's most nurturing and resonating relationships -- the one between French composer Claude Debu...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Moon Theft)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Clair de Lune (Moonlight) is one of Claude Debussy's best known works, and it's the perfect introduction to the "Impressionist" school of compositi...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :16
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Clueless)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Breaking down the barrier between classical music and its audience is a priority for many classical music performers, including the charismatic per...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (On A Lark)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Hilary Hahn has been playing the beautiful "Lark Ascending" Violin Concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams for most of her career -- some cons...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (I'm No Angel )
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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"Assume nothing," says harpist Yolanda Kondonassis. Just because the harp has been linked to the angels, she adds, doesn't mean the harp and its p...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Music is Medicine)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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We often hear about the healing qualities of music. Percussionist Evelyn Glennie recommends we take it in regular doses. Use this 31 second clip ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Hovhaness World)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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While Alan Hovhaness' music has a distinct and recognizable sound and texture, it's the sum of many different cultures and nationalities. Harpist ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Martin Pearlman (Bach's B-5 Shocker)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The idea of a keyboard instrument being a soloist in a concerto is obvious to us today, but in Bach's time, the keyboard usually played politely in...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Laugh it Off)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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We all makes mistakes -- some just get noticed more than most, like when you're playing your violin on stage before an audience of thousands. Viol...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Defines Percussion)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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When Evelyn Glennie tells people she plays percussion, they often assume she's the drummer in a Rock band. But since there are literally thousands...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Paganini the Opera)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Something's missing in violinist Hilary Hahn's latest CD. Rather than take the traditional "show off your fantastic technique" approach in two hig...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Bang, Bang, Bang)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Did you ever want to learn to play a musical instrument? It's not too late and not as difficult as you might think. Evelyn Glennie has just the r...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Interior Decorator)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Some Rock 'n Roll musicians are notorious for going on the road and destroying their hotel rooms. Violinist Hilary Hahn doesn't trash her room whe...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Scalpel Sutures Harp)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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In the event you may be undergoing surgery in the near future, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis suggests you check to see if your health insurance cover...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Burning Cello)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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This 10 second clip is intended to be used as a "Top of the Hour" Billboard or as an Enhanced Forward Promo. In pianist Orion Weiss' first recordi...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: :10
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Not About Me)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The piano part has the most notes -- thousands -- but it's a cello sonata. Pianist Orion Weiss talks about his need to play second fiddle to the ce...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weis (Deep Massenet)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The "Meditation" from the Opera, "Thais", is the only moment we know from this all but forgotten opera by Jules Massenet. Today, the "Meditation" ...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Haydn from Heaven)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Haydn Piano Trios have always been an important part of the Beaux Art Trio repertoire. The Trio's Pianist Menahem Pressler offers this multipl...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Yes Dear)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Getting accepted as a student at a prestigious music school is a grueling and highly competitive process. At Indiana University, Piano Professor (...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Who's the Boss)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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At best, making music with others is a successful marriage -- there's give and take and compromise. Pianist Menahem Pressler is the founding membe...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 3

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