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Yes, Beethoven composed while he was deaf. But more astonishing is the fact that he changed the course of Western music in the process.
- Added: Nov 02, 2019
- Length: 24:10
A moment of transformation from the Passacaglia movement of Symphony No. 5 in D Major by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1938).
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 10:20
The closing strains of the third movement of Schumann's Piano Quartet express introspection.
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 07:54
Chopin guides us back home through a tender harmonic progression in the third movement of this masterpiece.
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 07:43
A moment of passion taken from the final movement of Barber's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 04:08
It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 3
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
Shona revisits a conversation she had at the age of 17 with Andy Lipkiss, founder of TreePeople, and discovers that his story has even more relevan...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 14:26
Are the annual Rainbow Gatherings, on National Forest Land each Fourth of July, just free-wheeling havens for hippies or are they serious experimen...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUAC, KSFR, and KUNM
- Added: Aug 26, 2009
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 4
A visit to a Rwandan memorial raises questions about when and how we remember genocide.
Bought by Prairie Public and WBEZ
- Added: Apr 14, 2009
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 2
