PRX - Pieces for Tone: Authoritative

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

118 results


Piece image
Radio Curious visits with Congressman Sam Farr, a democrat representing Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, California in the United States House of ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Piece image
A sensitive discussion among medical professionals about infant loss

  • Added: Oct 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Piece image
Radio Curious visits with Ari Berman, a contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, who writes regularly on election and voting rights issues.  Hi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Christopher Irvin is the author of Federales and Burn Cards, as well as short stories featured in several publications, including Thuglit, Beat to ...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:54
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Making Sense of Affordable Healthcare for February 18, 2014. From Dr. Bob Lahita's Point of View

  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 42:45
Piece image
Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WJCT, Troy Public Radio, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Piece image
Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WCNY, KWIT, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
Concussion injuries to our children is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious as we visit with Dr. Robert Cantu, the author of “Concussions and...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 56:00
Piece image
The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.

Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
A physician and the author of fourteen novels, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:22
Piece image
What's the harm in using anti-feminine taunts, like "You play ball like a girl!" to motivate athletes?

Bought by KMXT and WEKU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Elizabeth Brundage is a writer who lives in upstate New York.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2011
  • Length: 25:03
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
The price of concert tickets can be daunting, but conductor Mark Elder says there’s an even bigger obstacle to the concert going experience. It’s ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :26
Caption: Misha Dichter, Credit: Stefan Cohen
You can make the piano sound loud and thunderous in two ways. There’s the “pounding and banging” school, but that can create a kind of musical mus...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :24
Caption: Misha Dichter, Credit: Stefan Cohen
The term “virtuoso” has come to mean many things over the years. These days, it seems to describe someone who can play very, very fast, but not ne...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :28
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
Recordings serve as a permanent record, and most musicians only want their best performances preserved for a lifetime. While some seek perfection ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :19
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
Brigg Fair is one of the shining musical lights from the composing pen of Frederick Delius. Mark Elder loves his music, but says it needs a little...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :28
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
How does a conductor or any musician for that matter, choose the right tempo. How fast, or how slow, should the music go? Conductor Mark Elder fi...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :23
Caption: Midori
Violinist Midori is celebrating her 28th year of music making – and one of her recent projects includes playing more contemporary music. Playing n...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :21
Caption: Kristjan Järvi, Credit: Peter Rigaud
You may be old enough to remember American Bandstand with Dick Clark, where each week a couple of teenagers would rate a new record. From that seg...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :29
Caption: Kristjan Järvi, Credit: Peter Rigaud
There are several ways to get to know a composer – the most effective way is to listen, and listen a lot, to the music. But when the composer is s...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :29
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Cellists lament the fact that Mozart did not write a solo sonata or concerto for their instrument. Zuill Bailey says cellists got the next best th...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kim Kashkashian, Credit: courtesy of WGBH
In addition to being the butt of musical instrument jokes, the viola suffers from “lack of solo music syndrome.” Violist Kim Kashkashian says that...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :14