PRX - Pieces for Tone: Intriguing

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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: :27
Caption: Puerto Rico's Rainbow
If confirmed, Sonia Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic and the first Puerto Rican to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a subject of pri...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 15, 2009
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paavo Järvi, Credit: Photo by Lang Photography
You may have heard the saying, "familiarity breeds contempt." In the classical music world, conductor Paavo Jarvi says familiarity can sometimes b...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jun 27, 2009
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paavo Järvi, Credit: Photo by Lang Photography
"Authenticity" became the buzz word for playing Baroque music in the 80's and 90's and the "Authentic Instrument" movement changed the way we now p...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jun 27, 2009
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Corigliano
If you ever enter into a friendly competition over which art form is the most powerful, or holds the greatest potential, you might want to consider...

  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: :27
Caption: John Corigliano
The middle of the 20th century saw both enormous growth and struggle for new classical music. Part of the struggle, according to composer John Cor...

  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: :24
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Roy Underhill - host of PBS's Woodwrights Shop along with Steve Johnson of www.tooltimer.com discuss older and middle generation perspectives on to...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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Is the Team of Rivals a good idea?

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
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The enigma of the death of Socrates

Bought by Remix Radio and WMUB


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 2
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African spirits in 18th century America

Bought by Listenwise and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 2
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Reasons for the Viking Age.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
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A new view of medieval garbage

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 02:51
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History is happening all the time... listen to it.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2008
  • Length: 02:49
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October 22, this day in history.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:52
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Magellan, Nelson, and the Comanche

  • Added: Oct 21, 2008
  • Length: 02:55
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Review of a recent medical report on the prevalence of heavy metal contamination in Ayurvedic medicines sold on the internet.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:35
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This piece reviews World Health Organization statements about lifestyle and health and discusses a study looking at how many Americans actually liv...

Bought by KMXT and KISU


  • Added: Sep 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:23
  • Purchases: 9
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By all accounts, composer Francis Poulenc was just a normal, average guy. No crazier than the next person. But his music could not be more schizop...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2008
  • Length: :20
Caption: Carl Stiansen and Sir Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Moore talks about his life in astronomy, life on Mars, and playing music with Einstein.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: :18
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The clarinet was most likely invented by Johann Christoph Denner in 1690. While Denner may have been the inventor, David Shifrin says it was Mozar...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: :26
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3 Generations discussing the importance of Astronomy to their cohert group and the world.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Facial pain and headaches may actually be a dental problem

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:17
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Varicose veins run in families....but there's lots you can do to deal with them

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:40
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Toenail fungus is VERY common - but you can get rid of it

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:28