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An audio collage of the struggle for civil rights, focusing on the role of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Bought by Radio Catskill, Prairie Public, KVMR, Prairie Public, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:30:13
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Robert Spano
The New York Philharmonic commissioned composer John Adams to write a new work for the first anniversary of 9/11. Instead of writing music for tho...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Manuel Barrueco, Credit: EMI-David Thompson
What are the ingredients that go into a successful performance? Guitarist Manuel Barrueco says once you have the notes under your belt, it’s time ...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: :19
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NEA Jazz Master Quincy Jones on Jazz Family; Jazz Mentors; Hamps Band; Boulanger; Cultural Exchange and Jazz Ambassadors

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 9
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NEA Jazz Master Rudy VanGelder on Recording Start; Alfred Lion; Hackensack Home; Englewood Cliffs; and Rudy's Goal.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 8
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NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton on First Gig with Duke Ellington' First Gig; Dedication to the Music; Racism; and Al Jackson.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 8
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NEA Jazz Master Jim Hall on Spiritual Awakening; Technique vs. Ideas; Bill Kirchner; Nat Hentoff; Pat Metheny; and Meeting Sonny Rollins

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 7
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The docu-drama LITTLE ROCK, by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj. is the untold individual stories of the "Little Rock Nine." It is an intimate story about t...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:28:41
Caption: Evelyn Glennie
"Everybody's a critic," as the saying goes – and that's true now more than ever, according to percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Use this 24 second cli...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: :24
Caption: Evelyn Glennie
Many elements, obvious and not so obvious, distinguish one instrument from the other. But the one thing that makes playing a percussion instrument...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: :22
Caption: Vadim Repin
The Piano Trio by Tchaikovsky is somewhat bathed in sadness and melancholy – and for understandable reasons: it was written as a memorial for Tchai...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Vadim Repin
Brahms knew how to make an entrance. After a stormy orchestral introduction, the violin enters with plenty of fire and electricity. But like all ...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
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NEA Jazz Master Dan Morgenstern on Remembering Fats Waller; Symphony Sid; Billy Holiday; Louis Armstrong and Arriving in the US.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 7
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NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi on Forming a Big Band; His First Inspiration; Bud Powell; and Remembering the Old days.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 8
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For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from ma...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WFAE, WGTE Public Media, RadioFreePalmer, WBHM and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 15
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NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Scott on Vultures; Approach; and Radio.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 8
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ARTIE SHAW WAS ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND OUTRAGEOUS FIGURES IN JAZZ. HE ONCE WROTE AN EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF WHICH READ, HE DID THE BEST HE COU...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 8
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IN 1943, MCPARTLAND MET CORNETIST JIMMY MCPARTLAND AT A USO CAMP IN BELGIUM. SHE WAS THE PIANIST AND HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE BAND THAT PLAYED FOR ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, KMUW and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 8
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IN 1956, 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER PHIL WOODS TOOK A SEAT IN THE RENOWNED DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG BAND. IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP, WITH GI...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Sunflowers shade cabbages, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Reformed criminals convert a garbage dump into a lush organic farm in Africa's largest slum, Kibera in Nairobi. Podcast created on site by Joshua ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joshua Bell
Violinist Joshua Bell's CD "At Home with Friends" includes an appearance by composer and pianist, Sergei Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff actually died ...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: :24
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The executive director of "Mendocino County Tomorrow", Robin Collier, known locally for her skills in making excellent cheese cake, is the guest on...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 31:44
Caption: Catrin Finch
One of the beauties of classical music is that some things never go out of style. Use this 24 second clip to introduce harpist Catrin Finch playin...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2009
  • Length: :24
Caption: Michael Tilson Thomas
The PBS Series, "Keeping Score" returned with a series of three programs, each devoted to a single composer and one of their pivotal pieces of musi...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2009
  • Length: :26
Caption: Michael Tilson Thomas
One of the highpoints of Gustav Mahler's epic symphony – his Symphony No. 8, is a scene in the second part* of the Symphony. Three sopranos each t...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2009
  • Length: :28