PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Susan Cone Bell, born July 5, 1946, created a legacy of leadership that will long out live her life which sadly ended in Honduran waters on Decembe...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Yuja Wang
The Piano Sonata No 2 by Chopin is best known for the funeral march in the third movement. That march has been immortalized from its appearances i...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :23
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This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
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Ralph Ellison's 1952 book Invisible Man is considered by critics and readers to be one of the 20th century's best descriptions of the American raci...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 09:38
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An Interview with Robert Reich

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
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The state of Colombia's renewed Justice system.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
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An Interview with Lawrence Lessig and Scott Anthony

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 54:59
Caption: Children explore the river's wildlife, Credit: Brian Mohan
Clearwater acts as a model for letting children be active and interactive with nature on the Hudson River. Welcome aboard

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
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Pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is not quite sure what's more amazing - that Beethoven wrote so many remarkable pieces of music, or that h...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: :22
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The musician's life is a humbling up and down journey towards perfection, or at least musical expression on the highest level. If you don't get it...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: :27
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Leaving Suriname as a young boy with dreams and hope for another life.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 19:21
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Fifty hours a week, at the University of Washington Medical Center ER, Crystal Patterson is so busy that she barely has time to go to the bathroom....

  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 08:55
Caption: Emmanuel Pahud, Credit: Photo by Shelia Rock
Back in the early 1990's, a French researcher introduced a theory known as the "Mozart Effect." It advanced the idea that listening to Mozart's mu...

  • Added: May 31, 2008
  • Length: :23
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Finding ways to keep music fresh is a performing musician's ongoing challenge, especially with a work they've played hundreds of times. Cellist Yo...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: :28
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The Finnish Four Seasons are a magnificent gift of nature, according to Finnish pianist Olli Mustonnen. He says that makes him well suited to play...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :23
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Escaping death changes life

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Nov 15, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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What really happens to white collar criminals when they go away to prison

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, Hearing Voices, KUSP, and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 02, 2006
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 5
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Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
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An eight-year-old boy talks about how writing essays to accompany his father's photographs makes him feel eerily old.

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, WYBC, New Hampshire Public Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2003
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 6