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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 ...
Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Kansas Public Radio and more
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 6
A physician and the author of fourteen novels, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 28:22
What's the harm in using anti-feminine taunts, like "You play ball like a girl!" to motivate athletes?
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
An expert on hazing is looking at ways to prevent this dangerous initiation ritual from happening on campus. Kelley Libby reports.
Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
Elizabeth Brundage is a writer who lives in upstate New York.
- Added: Jul 02, 2011
- Length: 25:03
Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists. John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 36:34
NASA psychologist Al Holland describes the mental challenges astronauts might face during a 3-year mission to Mars.
Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WEZU, WXDU, Radio Newark, KRUA and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 6
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 ...
Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois, Iowa Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 9
For your Fundraising campaign, guitarist Sharon Isbin asks your station's listeners to keep your station musically fluent. Use this 20 second clip ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :20
- Purchases: 4
For your Fundraising campaign, Sir James Galway reminds your listeners they are instrumental in the musical success of your station. Use this 22 s...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 4
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A scientific conference in London, England studied the geologic impacts of climate change by reviewing the records of previous warming periods. It...
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 02:00
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
Some music sounds and looks easy, but that’s often not the case. Violinist Gil Shaham says the Violin Concertos by Haydn are not for beginners. Us...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :27
Performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra have been called “vivid” and “rhapsodic” by the New York Times, and it’s clear that Atlanta hosts on...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :28
Even before the recent economic challenges, there have been ongoing discussions and blogs about the future of the American symphony orchestra. Wha...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :23
