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Blues For Modern Times (formerly Blues For Modern Man) (Series)

Produced by Jerry L. Davis

Most recent piece in this series:

Blues For Modern Times #176

From Jerry L. Davis | Part of the Blues For Modern Times (formerly Blues For Modern Man) series | 59:00

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This is show #176 of the Series "Blues For Modern Times", (formerly called Blues For Modern Man). This show is produced to be broadcast as either a weekly Series, or it can be easily be used as a stand-alone episode. The focus of this Series is to support today's Modern Blues music and working Blues Artists, and it highlights the great variety of music that they record. My shows use mainly just received new, and artists latest Blues releases in each show, though I occasionally blend in other modern Blues music. Today’s Blues are a diverse and exciting genre, as todays Blues Artists play in various styles of Blues. This allows me to create a true Blues variety show that should appeal to most any curious music lover. These programs DO NOT have to be ran in order-however-the higher the show number, the newer the music in the program. These shows ARE NOT dated at all, so that this Series can begin to be run at any point or show number, at your Stations discretion.
  This show is designed for the music lover, with a great variety of music. It's also for the Blues lover, to check out the latest from some of their favorite artists, and to discover new Blues artists and their recordings. And this show is a good intro to the Blues for new Blues listeners, to help them discover the diversity in today’s modern Blues music. I produce this show solely to be a part of a NPR/Community Station's regular weekly 1 hour show lineup. This show focus is on the music, and I inform listeners of the songs I've played, what album it's from, and an occasional tidbit or two on the Artist or the tune.  I post my playlists and more on my Facebook Page for the Show, Blues For Modern Times.
Since the show is aired regularly on several stations, I produce and upload NEW SHOWS EVERY WEEK. My hope is to grow both the number of stations and listeners of this program, thereby fulfilling my mission to support working Artists, and share today’s Blues music with as many listeners as possible...Upon request, I also can produce 25 second spots for each show if desired by your station, leaving :05 to announce show day and time.

Reveal Weekly (Series)

Produced by Reveal

Most recent piece in this series:

1012: A Whistleblower in New Folsom Prison, 3/23/2024

From Reveal | Part of the Reveal Weekly series | :00

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Classical Guitar Alive! (Series)

Produced by Tony Morris

Most recent piece in this series:

24-24 Cimarosa, Mertz, Ponce “Sonata Romantica,” Morel’s Fantasia de la Danza”

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: June 10, 2024

RE: ***CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   24-24 Cimarosa, Mertz, Ponce “Sonata Romantica,” Morel’s Fantasia de la Danza”

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

 Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude       Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                        (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

Cimarosa: Sonata in G Minor              Hannu Anala, guitar,  Mari Mantyla, decacorde

             “Musica Barocca a Due”   (Alba 2023) (3:39)

 

Mertz: Duo Concertant uber ein Theme aus Elisir d’amore     Brian Torosian, guitar,

                                                                                                 David Schrader, piano

                           “Mertz: Guitar & Piano Duos”      (Brian Torosian 2012) (9:13)            

 

Ponce: Sonata Romantica  “Homage a Schubert”      Jason Vieaux, guitar

                                “Manuel Ponce: Guitar Sonatas” (Azica 2001) (22:31)

 

Morel: Fantasia de la Danza                     Krzysztof Pelech, guitar,
                                              Capella Bydgostiensis,  Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

                                         (Luthier Music 2006) (20:05)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s program features a keyboard sonata by Cimarosa arranged for guitar and decacorde (10-string guitar), Mertz’s Duo Concertant for guitar and piano on a theme from the Donizetti opera The Elixir of Love, Manuel Ponce’s Sonata Romantica in homage to Franz Schubert, and Argentine composer Jorge Morel’s “Fantasia de la Danza” for guitar and orchestra.

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 200 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

Blue Dimensions (Series)

Produced by Bluesnet Radio

Most recent piece in this series:

Blue Dimensions M11: The WJ3 All-Stars Bring Us Love Songs We (Maybe) Forgot

From Bluesnet Radio | Part of the Blue Dimensions series | 59:00

Wj3_small In this hour of Blue Dimensions, the WJ3 All-Stars, drummer Willie Jones III with a great band that includes trumpeter Terrell Stafford and other superb players. We'll explore their album "Lovers and Love Songs: The Ones You Forgot." Also: pianist Luke Carlos O'Reilly has a house party on his album "Leave The Gate Open," and drummer Marlon Simon is "On Different Paths," his new album with brothers Edward on piano and Michael on trumpet. Plus: a new solo guitar piece from Julian Lage, the trio Wolff Clark Dorsey celebrating the music of Bill Evans, and organist Mike LeDonne taking on a Coltrane classic.

promo included: promo-M11

You Bet Your Garden (Series)

Produced by You Bet Your Garden

Most recent piece in this series:

YBYG1322T: You Bet Your Garden # 1322T Alien Earth Worms, 3/14/2024

From You Bet Your Garden | Part of the You Bet Your Garden series | 54:58

Ybyg-sp-p_small On this creepy crawly episode of YBYG Mike McGrath squirms through the differences in native worms! Plus your fabulous phone calls!!

A Way with Words (Series)

Produced by A Way with Words

Most recent piece in this series:

Gilded Age (#1633)

From A Way with Words | Part of the A Way with Words series | 54:00

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A professor who spent 25 years studying arthropods has some thoughts regarding our conversation about the phrase tight as a tick.
Karen in Charlotte, North Carolina, adores her son's cleft chin. Her husband, who also has one, calls it a butt chin. Karen prefers chimple, a combination of chin and dimple. Did she coin it?
If you're going up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, then you're going up to bed.
Is there a term for the need to sneeze when you step out into the sun? There are several, including the photic sneeze reflex, solar sneeze reflex, the Peroutka sneeze, and Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome, also known as ACHOO. Because exposure to sudden, bright light can be sternutatory, or cause sneezing, this phenomenon is also  called pepper on the sun. If you have a hard time sneezing, you have arrested sternuation, from Latin sternuere, meaning "to sneeze." The Old English word for "sneeze" is fneora.
A listener in Park City, Utah, says she and her fellow ski enthusiasts are having heated debates about the word nonplussed. It originally meant "at a loss," from Latin non plus, meaning "no more," suggesting a situation in which one can go no further, as in an argument. Perhaps because of confusion with nonchalant, the expression nonplussed also acquired the meaning of "not bothered." Both meanings now exist side by side, and linguists regard nonplussed as a skunked word. In other words, its use has become so problematic and contentious that it's best to choose a different word altogether.
People are forever saying that we live in one age or another, such as the Space Age or the Internet Age, which inspired Quiz Guy John Chaneski to create a Puzzle for the Ages. Imagine a world where people misunderstand words that end in -age, so someone needs to set them straight. For example, imagine someone going on and on about how we live in an age that's untidy:  "Everywhere you look there are clothes on the floor, dishes in the sink, truly we live in this kind of age." A more rational person then explains that the other misunderstood a word that ends in -age. What's the word?
Carl in Sebastopol, California, was reminded of his childhood on New York's Lower East Side while ready Harry Golden's book For 2 Cents Plain (Bookshop|Amazon), the title referring to how customers ordered a plain glass of seltzer. For a little more, he could get the beverage with milk and chocolate syrup stirred into it. Why was that drink called an egg cream if it contained neither eggs nor cream? 
After our conversation about restaurant codes used to ensure efficient service, a chef in Charlotte, North Carolina, shares more examples from his experience in an upscale establishment.
Katie in Everett, Washington, is curious about the expression If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers. What is a tinker? She heard this phrase on the television series The Gilded Age, in response to a character who is fretting about a hypothetical situation. The idea is that just because you talk about something, that doesn't mean it will necessarily happen. For centuries, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, tinkers were itinerant metalworkers who traveled from town to town fixing pots and pans and other kitchen utensils. The origin of the word tinker is unclear. It may be an extension of the word tin, or it may have to do with the sound of metal striking metal. If you're tinkering in your garage, then you're working with your hands to figure out a problem. A longer version of this saying begins with If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride / If wishes were watches, I'd wear one by my side and the phrase is often rendered as a rhyming version: If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinker's hands.
Why is an exciting sports event called a barnburner? A real barn on fire can be a spectacular sight, with so many combustible materials inside. Metaphorically, then, a barnburner is a "humdinger" or a "doozy." There's also a political sense of barnburner, referring to certain politicians and activists. A radical wing of the Democratic Party in the 1930s and 1940s was known as the Barnburners, a spinoff of a faction called the Locofocos, a reference to a wooden match with a name that likely derives from loco suggesting "speed" and the Italian word for "fire," fuoco.
Acclaimed Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair's sumptuous memoir, How to Say Babylon (Bookshop|Amazon) tells the story of her struggle to break free from a rigid Rastafarian upbringing, and how her discovery of poetry, both memorizing it and writing it, became her way out. 
Published in the mid-19th century, the poem "A Chapter of Ifs" elaborates at length on the phrase If ifs and ands were pots and pans. The gist is that one shouldn't dwell upon things that may not come to pass. 
How are lakes named? Does the proper name of a lake come first, as in Candlewood Lake, or does the word Lake precede the proper name, as in Lake Erie. It's a question that's long puzzled limnologists, the people who study lakes. The authors of an article in the journal Freshwater Biology titled "Lake Name or Name Lake? The etymology of lake nomenclature in the United States" found that most lakes use the format Name Lake, although larger lakes tend to be named with the Lake Name format.
You know that feeling when you walk into a shopping mall and are so overwhelmed by all the distractions you lose track of what you came there for? That's the Gruen Transfer or Gruen Effect, named for Victor Gruen, the architect who designed the first suburban open-air shopping center in the United States. Naming expert Nancy Friedman writes about this and other matters of onomastics and branding on her Substack, Fritinancy. 
A Virginia listener says that often when she'd leave the house, her grandfather would tell her Remember you belong to the land of the blue hen's chicken. What in the world did that mean? The feisty blue hen is the state bird of Delaware.
A slatch is a brief respite or interval when the rain lets up, as in We must wait for a slatch of fair weather. 
This episode is hosted by Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette.

Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat (Series)

Produced by Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri

Most recent piece in this series:

Episode #724 - The Cleftones

From Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri | Part of the Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat series | 59:00

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This week, Matt The Cat looks at one of the greatest Doo Wop groups, The Cleftones, through an archival interview with the late Herbie Cox. Cox was a founding member of this unique sounding vocal group from Queens, NY. Started in 1955, The Cleftones enjoyed two national top 10 R&B records with "Little Girl Of Mine" in 1956 and "Heart & Soul" in 1961 and were one of the few vocal groups to score hits in two decades. Matt The Cat was fortunate enough to have interviewed Herb Cox and this week he shares that wonderful interview, packed with Herbie's remembrances of the early days of The Cleftones from the first records to the first package tours. This sprawling interview is littered with The Cleftones' greatest sides jumpin' out of the ol' Rockola on this week's "Juke In The Back." 

Sound Ideas (Jazz & Blues) (Series)

Produced by Clay Ryder

Most recent piece in this series:

Sound Ideas #387 - Big & Bold

From Clay Ryder | Part of the Sound Ideas (Jazz & Blues) series | 57:30

Sound_ideas_small This is the three-hundred-eighty-seventh episode in a thematic series focused on jazz, blues, and spoken word.

While the big band was king during the swing era of the 1930s and early 1940s, in the realm of jazz, the big band never completely disappeared. While touring ensembles are rare given the economics involved, scoring and musical development never came to a close. In fact, studio recordings show that the big band is alive and well, and arguably a bit hipper than ever. In this hour, we will explore some large ensembles from the past few decades and dig their big and bold sound.

The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree (Series)

Produced by Candice Agree

Most recent piece in this series:

The Spanish Hour 2341: Profile: Conductor Ataúlfo Argenta

From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30

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Highly regarded as one of the great conductors of the 20th century, Ataúlfo Argenta is not as well known as Monteux, Beecham, Koussevitzky, and other mid-twentieth century conductors. This week, we hear Argenta conduct L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the concert version of Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo (Love the Magician) and Francisco Escudero’s Concierto vasco para piano y orquesta (Basque Concerto for Piano and Orchestra) featuring pianist Martín Imaz.