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Being a jack of all trades has its advantages, but as the saying goes, it doesn't necessarily make you a master of anything. A musical exception t...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :22
Myo Min Aye Win is an 18-yr old living in Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar
- Added: May 23, 2008
- Length: 03:29
One of the most talked about musicians these days is Dutch violinist Janine Jansen. Riccardo Chailly conducted an early recording of hers that fea...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :29
The Overture to an opera can serve several purposes - it can get the audience in the mood and set the tone for the drama about to unfold. It can a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :27
Listening to brass music by Giovanni Gabrieli is a lesson in rich harmonies and inventive melodies. Gabrieli's music is also a lesson in sound, as...
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- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :23
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Trumpet players thank their lucky stars every day for Telemann and Purcell. In their day, they added dozens of new works to the repertoire. When ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :23
Before composers recognized the trumpet's capabilities as a solo instrument, it was mostly used to add reinforcement to the main musical themes and...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :25
The amount of new music for the Brass Quintet has grown considerably. But this is a relatively recent development. Trumpet player Rolf Smedvig sa...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :24
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra goes conductor-less. Multiple players lead the orchestra in any given piece. When they're joined by a soloist, like...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :28
- Added: Apr 26, 2008
- Length: 05:27
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Dave Brubeck reflects on the importance of jazz and foreign relations
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:00
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Today's movie stars and star athletes have it rough, between the paparazzi, critics, reporters and all the others who sit and judge. It's not a ne...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: :26
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays to the beat of a different conductor - they don't have one. Each member is a conductor or a "leader" as they p...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :22
The cynical judgment often leveled against Vivaldi is he wrote the same concerto 100 times. Vivaldi fans respond to that charge with varying degre...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :22
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Would you like to know how to cut your gas bills, not just for today but three and four years from now?
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- Added: Mar 18, 2008
- Length: 01:17
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- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 03:28
In Beethoven's 6th Symphony, known as his "Pastoral" Symphony, each movement depicts a very specific moment in nature, from a scene by a brook to a...
- Added: Feb 29, 2008
- Length: :22
There's lots of talk about the health coverage crisis - but the real crisis is that there aren't enough doctors to go around - a report from North ...
- Added: Feb 22, 2008
- Length: 05:01
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: 03:18
With the U.S. economy in crisis, German investors wonder how a recession would affect their markets.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 03:08
A recipe for beets in yogurt.
- Added: Jan 11, 2008
- Length: 01:29
A recipe for apple gingerbread cake
- Added: Jan 11, 2008
- Length: 01:29
The Silk Road Tour is cellist Yo-Yo Ma's ongoing quest to discover the cultural connections covering the large swath of land between the Mediterran...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :32
A conversation with badass Emma and a look at the work of the NRC's report on the Army corps levees.
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- Added: Dec 18, 2007
- Length: 05:58
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More on one of the newest sales techniques.
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- Added: Dec 14, 2007
- Length: 02:31
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