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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to Harry Burley, a master adapter of folk songs and influential figure to Antonin Dvorak.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces Robert McFerrin, celebrated baritone and the first African American man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Joshua introduces Ignatius Sancho, who was born on a slave ship during the middle passage. Sancho escaped the institution of slave...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to one of the most interesting figures of classical music. Chevalier D'Saint George was the son of a slave an...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces Sisserieta Jones, and American soprano sometimes known as "Black Patti." She was one of the first black performe...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to H. Leslie Adams, a world renowned American composer, best known for vocally-centric modalities such as ope...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to Stacey V. Gibbs, a renowned composer and arranger whose specialty is infusing new energy into familiar wor...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to Samuel Coleridge Taylor, whose brief but prolific career left an indelible mark on classical music. The pi...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to composer Richard Danielpour, who has created notable works in conjunction with literary powerhouses Toni M...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to the virtuosic Thomas "blind Tom" Wiggins. Born a slave, Blind Tom was an amazingly talented American music...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to Undine Smith Moore, the "dean of black women composers." Moore was a prolific and talented composer and ar...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to composer and educator, George Walker. Known for his wide musical vocabulary, Walker is a pulitzer winning ...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to the composer and multi-intrumentalist Evelyn Simpson Curenton, and we hear an excerpt of her work, "O'Glory."

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces Moses Hogan, a 20th century American composer noted for his arrangements of spirituals.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Joshua introduces Robert Nathaniel Dett and his piece "Honey" from his "In the Bottoms" Suite. The piece evokes scenes and moods o...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Joshua introduces William Grant Still, the "dean of black music." We hear an excerpt of Still's work "Ringplay," on piano.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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Some historical recordings from another era.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
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A revisit to a great album by Buddy Guy recorded in 2001.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:54
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Blues music has been his world most of his life.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 57:23
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A Bluesman who plays gospel as well as blues.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:58
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One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:26:58
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Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:06:54
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Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:34
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The little girl who went to school with federal marshals as escorts has something to say about what she went through and what we are going through ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:02:02
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Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created "Songs for the Struggle- Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement." This is ...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:25
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