PRX - Pieces for Format: Interview
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
A conversation with founder Anthony Rotolo
- Added: Jun 15, 2009
- Length: 24:44
Before a new piece of music is played for the first time – before it is judged either a masterpiece or a disaster, it exists in a state of musical ...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :19
While some composers are inspired by nature and walks in the countryside, others approach it as a job where they show up and put pencil to music pa...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :22
The name of the piece is "Mirror in Mirror." It's a seven minute work by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers describes it as...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :26
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
Jay Ipson is the original survivor. He and his mother and father escaped selections in the the Kuvna ghetto in Lithuania. When Nazis tightened the ...
Bought by Remix Radio
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 27:52
- Purchases: 1
We visited the DOME project in New York City to discuss their work with young offenders and alternative ways to keep kids out of jail.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 28:00
Clearwater acts as a model for letting children be active and interactive with nature on the Hudson River. Welcome aboard
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 01:46
Performers, their teachers and their audience demand perfection. Since perfection really can't be achieved, that puts musicians in a compromising ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :26
To get an orchestra of 60 or 100 players to play like one is the eternal challenge for a conductor. Every orchestra is different but conductor JoA...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :29
Is there an "American sound" when it comes to classical music? Conductor JoAnn Falletta makes this case for Aaron Copland. Use this 25 second cli...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :25
- Added: Oct 08, 2008
- Length: 03:34
Who knows where inspiration truly comes from? It's different for anyone, but inspiration can strike anytime. Conductor Ivan Fischer says Mahler o...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :32
- Added: Jun 05, 2008
- Length: 05:51
From a bone chilling graveyard scene, to the sound of a heart beat that slows down and finally stops beating, Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata has j...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
The soloist faces a number of temptations in the Sibelius Violin Concerto, especially the magical moments at the beginning. For Hilary Hahn, the t...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :27
Like many Russian musicians in the 20th century, Sergei Prokofiev's music was under the direct supervision of the Russian government. Pianist Orli...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :24
The Virginia Tech Marching Virginians have been honoring the victims of the April 16 shootings, including one member of their own, with a special a...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 10, 2008
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
All performers face numerous pressures, from career choices to wardrobe selection. Young musicians and teenage actors are often pressed to grow up...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :22
Priest Mike Bassano's work at the Prabhat Namphu Monastery and AIDS Hospice in Thailand
- Added: Nov 16, 2007
- Length: 28:00
Ann Hancock, director of the Climate Protection Campaign, gives personal solutions to Global Warming.
- Added: Oct 11, 2007
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 2
How much do you need to know and understand to enjoy classical music? Olli Mustonen is best known as a pianist, but he also conducts and composes ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :25
- Added: Sep 22, 2007
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 2
From: The Tibet Connection
Behind the scenes with the Dalai Lama - what it's like to be his translator.
Bought by Interfaith Voices, WBEZ, and WNYC
- Added: Aug 15, 2007
- Length: 14:41
- Purchases: 3
From: The Tibet Connection
Can Buddhism survive modernity? How does science play a role? Julie Adler takes an in depth look at these questions and more with leading scholar a...
- Added: Aug 15, 2007
- Length: 17:08
