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Native American Heritage Month
From: Wind & Rhythm
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we celebrate National Native American Heritage month with music written by Native American composers. We hear fro...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KECG, WRTI, WQCS and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 14
The Blues
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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The blues as a vital component permeating throughout this 2-hr set of bluegrass, jazz, and the fusionary 'grassicana' in between

  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:49
Composer Osvaldo Golijov
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: Osvaldo Golijov
The stunning music of Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov, and the traces of Tango within his works.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
#22-38 Brentano Quartet Mendelssohn
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Brentano Quartet play music by Mendelssohn. Also, the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers perform a piece by Eriks Esenvalds.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer, KWAX, WCNY, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Appalachian Vibes: Cynthia Sue Larsen, physicist and author
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
Caption: Amanda Bocchi, Credit: Jaimie Phillips
Cynthia Sue Larsen is the first physicist to document the strange Reality Shifts theory (AKA The Mandela Effect) in the late 1990's. She has been f...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:12
When you know a place
From: Kyla Brettle
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Enter an invisible world that parallels our own and be inspired by insights gleaned over twenty-five years of deep listening to natural ecologies -...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 12:40
The Big Ponder #34: Sounds of Nature
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Tosca Terán creates soundscapes using fungi. In this immersive piece, Tosca takes listeners on a soundwalk, pausing periodically to interview other...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 25:59
  • Purchases: 1
John Muir in the Wild Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we visit with the friendly ghost of John Muir, specifically regarding his many excursions in the California deserts. New soundscapes by Red...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nasruddin & Other Holy Fools
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Back from our brief convalescence to bring you desert prayers in the night — Ancient Egyptian prayers & psalms, in this case. And some tales of Mul...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
#22-05 PCSO Scheherazade
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Portland Columbia Symphony play Rimsky-Korsakov

Bought by WNIJ, KPOV, Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer, WCNY and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
A Hymn To Sekhmet, Creator of the Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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How long has Sekhmet ruled over humanity? Five-thousand years! That’s when She is first known to us, appearing in something like her current form, ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
#22-02 VSO All Strings!
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Strings of the Vancouver Symphony play works by William Grant Still, Shostakovich, and more.

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
22-04 Handel, Morel, Mangoré, and more
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Duo Noire, Credit: Duo Noire
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features solo, ensemble, and orchestral music with guitar by Handel, David Bruce, Jorge Morel, Golfam...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WVIA, WHQR, WUAL and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 61
21-52 Music by Estonian Composers: Arvo Part, Rene Eespere, Raimo Kangro, and more, and Interview with Estonian guitarist Heiki Matlik
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Arvo Part
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Estonian composers Arvo Part, Rene Eespere, Raimo Kangro, Peeter Vahi, EEster Magi...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WVIA, KACU, KWAX and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 45
Coyote
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard about Coyotes and their howl.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Fence
From: Raymond Pang
Caption: A man and his fence, Credit: Ray Pang
"A good fence makes a good neighbor." - Robert Frost. This piece was produced by Race Ray Pang, Palace Shaw, Stepfanie Aguilar, and Emily Shaw as ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 04:40
Savannah Bustillo's Tongue Twisters in Graphite
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: "Enchilada" , Credit: Savannah Bustillo
In the world of audio recording, sound is visually represented in what’s called a wave form. They often look like tall ovals with vertical spikes. ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:42
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
Flashback (Vol.2)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Another reflection backward through life and time via the medium of bluegrass > jazz along the shapeshifting sonic superhighway in between.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:40
The Autumn Beatitudes
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over. It'...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
21-41 Castlenuovo-Tedesco, Kile Smith’s “The Dawn’s Early Light,” Interview: Craig Hella Johnson
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Craig Hella Johnson, Credit: Craig Hella Johnson
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features Mario Castlenuovo-Tedesco’s rarely heard Guitar Concerto No. 2, “Concerto Sereno,” the wor...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WVIA, WHQR, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 59
21-40 Zamboni, Rodrigo, Nico Muhly’s “How Little You Are,” Interviews: Craig Hella Johnson, John Dearman, Esteli Gomez
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: The Singing Guitar cd, Credit: Conspirare
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Rodrigo, Zamboni, and the world premiere recording of American Composer Nico Muhly...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WVIA, WHQR, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 62
Desert Sojourn
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A sonic journey through the American Southwest via the medium of bluegrass, jazz and that rarefied musical space between.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:40
The Big Ponder #17: Listening
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Our ability to hear is fully formed after just four and a half months in the womb. From this early age, sound shapes our worldview. Jim McKee, a so...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot and Military Voices Initiative: Alvy Powell and Yvonne Powell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Alvy Powell and Yvonne Powell at their StoryCorps Interview in Norfolk, Virginia on July 14th, 2021.
Master Sgt. Alvy Powell Jr. talks with his sister, Yvonne Powell, about being the oldest enlisted soldier in the Army, and the role Yvonne played i...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WHRV, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 3

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