Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders

Series produced by Listener Directed Productions, Inc.

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Virtuoso Voices offers you three types of classical music fundraising messages: Produced Funder Spots, Un-hosted Funders and Straight-read Funder Spots. All feature classical music's leading performers and conductors. Use these Funder Spots during your classical music fundraising shifts to add variety, credibility and authority to your on-air fundraising sound. The Virtuoso Voices Funders Series includes Gil Shaham, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Evelyn Glennie, Stephen Hough, Richard Stoltzman, Yolanda Kondonassis, Andrew Litton, Leila Josefowicz, Roy Goodman, Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Andre Watts, the Canadian Brass, Riccardo Muti, Menahem Pressler, Garrick Ohlsson, Marin Alsop, Sharon Isbin and many others.

Virtuoso Voices(tm) is also Public Radio's primary source for classical music fundraising messages.

Your station can customize the Produced Funder Spots to the specific sound and fundraising terminology of your station. These messages, from performers like Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sarah Chang and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, follow Public Radio's Best Practices for fundraising.

Please visit the fundraising page of our website for further examples and further information. www.virtuosovoices.org/fundraising. Or call David or Cindy at (703) 751-0342.

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158 Pieces

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For your Fundraising campaign, Martin Pearlman reminds your listeners of your station's reliance on individual financial support. While much of th...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :33
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For your Fundraising campaign, Evelyn Glennie talks about how music can inspire great things inside and outside the concert hall. Use this 38 seco...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :38
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For your Fundraising campaign, composer Jennifer Higdon talks about the power in music to inspire powerful emotions and thoughts. Use this 25 seco...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :25
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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 ...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
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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 ...

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  • Length: :59
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For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Olli Mustonen talks about the privilege and responsibility of enjoying an association with classical music. ...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :31
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For your Fundraising campaign, violinist Robert Chen (Concert Master of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) thanks your listeners for their financial s...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :27
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For your Fundraising campaign, two members of the Canadian Brass remind your listeners of the power of classical music the power of their financial...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :45
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For your Fundraising campaign, the Canadian Brass remind your listeners that the power and romance of classical music is endless -- even when playe...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
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For your Fundraising campaign, conductor Erich Kunzel talks about the joy and responsibility of bringing a great musical work to life. Use this 19...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :19
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
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For your Fundraising campaign, Leonard Nimoy links Mr. Spock's (Star Trek) trademark hand gestures and that pre-New Age, Vulcan saying to the benef...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :36
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For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Simone Dinnerstein invites your listeners to take your station to epic heights by supporting classical music...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :27
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For your Fundraising campaign, conductor and violinist Vladimir Spivakov says supporting classical music on Public Radio is one way we can also sup...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :33
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For your fundraising campaign, conductor Andrew Litton talks about what classical music offers us, and how he enjoys the responsibility of bringing...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :33
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For your Fundraising campaign, conductor Andrew Litton says classical music recordings can take you to places where great music is being made today...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :29
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For your fundraising campaign, Cellist Lynn Harrell lists three reasons why he loves classical music, and asks your listeners to come up with their...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :30
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For your Fund Drive, violinist Leila Josefowicz talks about her approach to recordings -- where she plays like "there's no tomorrow." She connects...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :26
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For your Fund Drive, 2005 Van Cliburn Piano Competition winner Alexander Kobrin talks about classical music's stress-relieving power to help us foc...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 30