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The English horn is a specialty instrument -- a longer, deeper version of the oboe. One of the English horn's best known moments comes with the lo...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
Beethoven's last piano sonata contains one of classical music's all-time most shocking moments. Right in the middle of the sonata, without warning...
Bought by MPR News Stations
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
Contestants rip their shirts, fall to their knees and cry for Stella in the annual Stanley and Stella Shouting Contest in New Orleans Jackson Square.
- Added: Mar 22, 2009
- Length: 05:36
Contemporary short stories, performed by two prize-winning young women writers. ZZ Packer has "Brownies," about violence that brews when white girl...
- Added: Mar 19, 2009
- Length: 56:17
The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 is a part of nearly every pianist's concert repertoire, and for many Russian pianists, it's often the first ma...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :26
This is the story of two neighbors, their fence and what happened when it fell down. It isn't what you'd expect.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Remix Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Feb 14, 2009
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 3
Beethoven's music is not always about the DRAMA. You can hear sweetness and joy, emotion and humor, fire and passion, and in the case of the third...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :19
It is, or was at one time, classical music’s forbidden word – or act: "Crossover"... playing music that's not 100% classical. Flutist, Sir James ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2008
- Length: :26
The inner secrets of a comma, a writer, a teacher.
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:24
We climb the stairs to old age with two women & one man
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 02:54
Fun can happen by mistake.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 1
Dreams wrapped in curious packages
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:34
Young classical mucisians jamming in bars are drawing young audiences
- Added: Sep 17, 2008
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 2
You're locked in your bathroom. Who will save you?
- Added: Jun 19, 2008
- Length: 13:10
- Purchases: 5
- Added: May 26, 2008
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 1
The spoken language of classical music is filled with foreign names and phrases, and even conductors like Marin Alsop find it challenging to be mul...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: :22
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
Thom Steinbeck, son of novelist John Steinbeck, discusses his father's unique method of encouraging his sons to read.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 16, 2008
- Length: 02:44
- Added: Feb 07, 2008
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
An act of Christmas charity goes horribly awry
Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WTJU, KUOW and more
- Added: Dec 18, 2007
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 17
- Added: Nov 30, 2007
- Length: 06:09
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 30, 2007
- Length: 06:42
Music and comedy for the holidays.
Bought by KMXT, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, NPR Illinois and more
- Added: Nov 26, 2007
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
In Alaska, sometimes it isn't "Go Fish"; it's "Go Mouse"...
- Added: Nov 26, 2007
- Length: 02:59
