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It's a long road to establish a career in music, much less going on to become a major player. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma offers these guidelines for what mu...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :27
Performing music is probably one of the only professions where the longer you play, the better you get - the harder it gets. It's a phenomenon tha...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :18
If there were a "supporting musician" category in Mozart's Piano Concertos, it would probably be the wind section, especially the clarinets. When ...
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- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :15
- Purchases: 1
The late artist Donald Judd remembered in Marfa, Texas.
- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 29:00
Some composers are influenced by other composers and earlier styles and trends. That was surely the case with Jean Sibelius, but conductor Herbert...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :41
"Back Seat Drivers" are bad for those of us in the driver's seat, and they can be just as distracting for composers. Conductor Bernard Haitink tal...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :29
Anton Bruckner's music is out of place, and maybe out of sync in our current fast-paced world. Conductor Bernard Haitink says Bruckner's luxurious...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :24
Anton Bruckner's most popular work is his Symphony No.4, but conductor Bernard Haitink says he's under the spell of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Use...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :19
If you've heard or read only one thing about Haydn, it's probably that he is the undisputed "Father of the Symphony". Conductor Roy Goodman thinks...
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- Added: Jul 30, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
Mozart originally conceived many of his Piano Concertos as works he would both play and conduct. Occasionally, pianist Maurizio Pollini performs t...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :33
- Purchases: 2
If you're a conductor, it's helpful to have a living composer at your side to answer questions about their music that may come up during rehearsals...
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- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :28
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Before Pope John Paul II, Poland's most celebrated national hero was Frederic Chopin. His music was a source of inspiration and comfort for a coun...
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- Added: Jun 25, 2007
- Length: :27
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Nuremberg prosecutor Whitney R. Harris believes we honor God by acting with respect, mercy and peace.
- Added: Oct 06, 2006
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 3
A belief in personal responsibility drives Dr. Anthony Fauci?s work to find a cure for HIV-AIDS.
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- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
This piece is an interview with Jo Anne Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security about the new Medicare Part D prescription drug plan
- Added: Apr 26, 2006
- Length: 16:10
As a way to approach that awkward child-parent sex talk, Aoife Baker and her mom both read Sabrina Weill's "The Real Truth about Teens and Sex." In...
- Added: Nov 21, 2005
- Length: 03:15
dennis ross examines the rise of anti-american radicalism in the middle east.
- Added: Jun 17, 2005
- Length: 59:52
- Added: Jan 10, 2005
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 4
A complete interview with Juliana Hatfield featuring music from her Zoe release "In Exile Deo"
- Added: Dec 16, 2004
- Length: 28:38
A Chinese American's Words of Warning for South Asians looking for themselves in movies and TV.
Bought by 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Feb 10, 2004
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 1
