PRX - Pieces for Tone: NPR NewsMagazine-y

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

326 results


Wilma Pang
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
Piece image
Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College, shares the influence of Chinese opera, a rapidly-disappearing art form, wherever she can. Pan...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
Artists Get a Piece of Mass Health Reform
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Artist Xylor Jane
Artists and writers are among the new demographic getting free or subsidized health care under Massachusetts health reform. They say it allows them...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Welcome Wagon's InaugurART
From: Sam Greenspan
Caption: The Welcome Wagon's series, Credit: Tim Gibbon
DC artists and activists collaborate on a poster project to inform Inauguration-goers about the lack of DC voting rights.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:13
Part 1 - the 18th Century
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
Classical music in the years before and just after the Revolution

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2 - the 19th Century
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
Classical music in American in the 19th Century

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:01
  • Purchases: 1
Part 3 - the 20th Century
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
Classical music in American in the 20th Century

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 13:51
  • Purchases: 1
I Wonder Where My Glasses Go?
From: The humble Farmer
Piece image
A commentary on lost items

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:17
Why Do People Go Into a Museum?
From: The humble Farmer
Piece image
Do you have to love art to go into a museum?

  • Added: Sep 05, 2008
  • Length: :29
California Looks Good
From: The humble Farmer
Piece image
Alles ist relativ

  • Added: Aug 02, 2008
  • Length: :37
Steve Reich's Different Trains meets the Borromeo String Quartet -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Piece image
The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirr...

Bought by WBHM, WDAV Classical Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 3
Controversy at Brooklyn's MoCADA
From: NYCity News Service
Piece image
Artist Dread Scott is known for his political work. His latest exhibit in Brooklyn is ruffling a few feathers over its depiction of police brutali...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
Listening Live
From: NYCity News Service
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The city's rising cost of real estate and gentrification have forced some well-known music clubs to go silent. While venues come and go, bands are ...

  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 20:00
Never Judge A Show by It's Pilot: Moonlight.
From: Tony Figueroa
Series: Child of Television
Piece image
Never Judge A Show by It's Pilot: Moonlight.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2007
  • Length: 06:09
The "Purban" poetry pulpit
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
Piece image
The people and urban potery movement

  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 03:52
Ed Fowler, Master Bladesmith: Portrait of a Wyoming Knife-Maker
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: PRX default Piece image
PRNDI-award-winning portrait of a master craftsman and his apprentice.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2007
  • Length: 06:27
Jon Jang
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
Piece image
Jon Jang, composer and jazz pianist, who paved the way for Asian American jazz musicians.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2007
  • Length: 04:59
Philip Johnson's Glass House Revealed
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Piece image
Tour of the famous "Glass House" of architect Philip Johnson.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Shakespeare
From: Eric schaffer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Award-Winning Story on a University of Maryland Festival on the Bard

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 17, 2007
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Unperformable? A Punk/Kabuki Play
From: BSR Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of a new interpretation of the Kabuki play "Drum of the Waves of Horikawa," approaching the text from a punk-rock perspective.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 07, 2007
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 2
Reimagining a New Orleans Icon: The Shotgun House
From: Eve Troeh
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Striking, afforable architecture that builds on New Orleans' past

Bought by Real Estate Today and WKMS


  • Added: May 06, 2007
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 2
Cotopaxi Pilgrimage
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
Piece image
Native artists in the Ecuadorean Andes return to their people's sacred mountain.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Next Generation Radio @ SXSW
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
Piece image
SXSW and "the underdog."

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Next Generation Radio @ SXSW
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Gilberto Gil

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
Stay the Course: Take Two?
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Piece image
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by Raven Radio, KGOU, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Art and Artifacts
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Piece image
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KWCW, Raven Radio, BSR Radio, KGOU, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones