PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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6 works, including DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including MOZART: IMPRESSARIO:Overture:, K 486. Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra/Mario Bernardi.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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4 works, including RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Corelli in D Minor, Op. 42; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
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4 works, including RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Corelli in D Minor, Op. 42; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
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6 works, including HARTY: John Field Suite.. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra/Raymond Leppard.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:02
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4 works, including DEBUSSY: Reverie. Chamber Orchestra of Europe/James Galway; James Galway, flute.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:02
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4 works, including HAYDN: Flutes Trio in G; Laurel Zucker, flute.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including GRIFFES: Japanese Melodies (3) (3) . Perspectives Ensemble.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A caring black musician is dedicated to convincing Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the organization through the power of music and conversation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Join us today as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and we share stories and songs, bringing focus to the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: BLM rally in North Hollywood, Credit: Jed Alexander
Even in complicated times, we tend to forget the simplicity of, “why we protest” even if the issue is a no-brainer or has complicated edges. We kno...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 07:34
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The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Winner of the 2013 Whiting Award for non-fiction, author Clifford Thompson reads from his memoir, Twin of Blackness. Just one sample of our daily c...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:13
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
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A founding father of bebop and modern jazz, wife Nellie called his style "Melodius Thunk."

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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He was America's first rock star ... and we knew him as Johnny Ace

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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A young black man learns about his identity through local African American history. KRAK

  • Added: Jun 16, 2008
  • Length: 09:13
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Shareef Cousin was wrongly convicted and sent to death row for over a decade.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KTNA


  • Added: Mar 16, 2007
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 3