Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs
Series produced by KCME
Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs, hosted by Michael Campion, is a program for people who don't care for contemporary music and those who do, but want a lighter hand on the throttle. It's an hour-long voyage of discovery into twentieth and twenty-first century music during which you'll experience some of the finest and most enjoyable works you'll ever hear.
Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs is an hour-long weekly program produced and hosted by Michael Campion.
80 Pieces
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Musical representations of the great city of New York by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland and others.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 1
The city of London, with its rich musical traditions has been a magnet for composers and musicians from all over the world. On the program thi...
- Added: Oct 31, 2020
- Length: 58:13
Music inspired by the city of Paris including works by Francis Poulenc, Franz Waxman, Frederick Delius and George Gershwin.
- Added: Oct 23, 2020
- Length: 58:00
Poulenc was one of the group known as Les Six whose goal was to move French music in a new direction. His early music was focused on the irreverent...
- Added: Oct 05, 2020
- Length: 57:58
The history of percussion is as long as the history of music. Hundreds of instruments from around the world give indigenous music a unique identity...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 58:08
The desire to create a distinctly French music in the late 19th century led to a rich, exotic sound, which was adapted by the French composers of t...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 58:04
The vocalise, a song originally meant to teach singing technique, inspired composers of imagination to compose original works for the recital hall ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2020
- Length: 58:03
A selection of music by composers born in September including Amy Beach, Gustav Holst, Dmitri Shostakovich and others.
- Added: Sep 05, 2020
- Length: 58:07
Many composers have felt the pull of the sea and as a result there are a lot of powerful and moving works that take us on a magical voyage from the...
- Added: Aug 29, 2020
- Length: 57:55
Legendary jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman wasn't just one of the most famous jazz musicians of his time, but he also sought out new works from some ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 57:42
Music inspired by all kinds of weather from sun to clouds to rain to cloudbursts and back again.
- Added: Aug 16, 2020
- Length: 58:04
In 1937 Adolf Hitler ordered an exhibition of art that the National Socialists used to discredit artists that were considered degenerate. The follo...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 03, 2020
- Length: 58:10
- Purchases: 1
The list of American composers who traveled to Paris for the sole purpose of studying with the legendary Nadia Boulanger reads like a Who’s Who of ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2020
- Length: 57:07
After dying out by the end of the eighteenth century, the harpsichord made a comeback in the 20th. Composers became interested in the instrument ag...
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 58:01
The music world is forever indebted to Frederick Chopin for his brilliant and insightful piano music. It changed the way musicians and composers th...
- Added: Jun 27, 2020
- Length: 57:42
Music by composers born in the month of July. We'll hear from English Composers Gordon Jacob and George Butterworth, American David Diamond, Ottori...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 58:00
Fairy Tales are the inspiration on the program. Music by Korngold, Coates, Ravel, and others from Mother Goose to the Brothers Grimm.
- Added: Jun 07, 2020
- Length: 58:11
Film music by composers better-known for their concert works. Great selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Shostakovich and ot...
- Added: Jun 04, 2020
- Length: 57:48
The greatest tribute one composer can pay another is to make an arrangement of one of his works. Great composers of the last hundred years have som...
- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 58:05
The recorded legacy of composers performing their own works is vast, but rarely heard. This week, a chance to hear piano music, via original record...
- Added: May 09, 2020
- Length: 58:00
