PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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This week on melodically challenged, we look to the heavens. We’ll be celebrating several successful NASA missions in 2022 that have extended human...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Guy Fieri said, “Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matt...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”— Eavan Boland Welcome to another edition of melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Emily Dickinson said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Welcome to another edi...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Bobby Knight said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we’re...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Hippolyte Taine [Ipohleet Tehn] said “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” Welcome to anoth...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen Welcome to this week’s melodically cha...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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George Bernard Shaw said, “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” Welcome to this week’s melodically chal...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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3am Sunday morning introspections on life in New Orleans from the only sober guy in the French Quarter - the all-night show guy at the community ra...

Bought by KPRG


  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 34:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish presents Jewish music from Ukraine as well as Jewish music with distinctive Ukrainian roots.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. Brene B...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Frank Zappa said, “You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some n...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Dean Karnazes said, “The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when thi...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Andre Maurois said, “We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.” Welcome to this week’s melodica...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Stanley Horowitz wrote, ”Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Welcome to another e...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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At melodically challenged, we are proud of our show’s sound, and for that we thank Rettward von Doernberg, who generously lets us use his music, B...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:07
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Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 07:54
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with three freshmen at St. Cloud State Universit...

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 27:04
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It’s vocal jazz interpretations of the music of Bob Dylan, on this Afterglow special, including covers by Nina Simone, Madeleine Peyroux, and more.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Being Reasonable
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset, An Educator Discusses the Importance of Protecting Childhood and a Poet Contemplates his Sp...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Miles Davis and Gil Evans third collaboration traced to Joaquin Rodrigo's El Concierto de Aranjuez, and on from there.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:00
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Which legends inspire you? This week on Wind & Rhythm, we hear music inspired by King Arthur, Jason and Argonauts, and extra ordinary people who h...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA, WUAL, and KVNO


  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: A portrait of Ralph Reese at his drawing desk in his apartment in April 2018. , Credit: Catherine Saint Louis
Illustrating comics saved Ralph Reese as a teenager. Now, at 68, Ralph's living in South Dennis with a new creative outlet.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
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It may have grabbed my attention when I first got a chance to experience what playing in a large band was like. The sound is big, loud at times, bu...

Bought by KTXK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KMFA


  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Part 2 of our celebration of the Schubert Ensemble of London.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1