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Virtuoso Voices - Rolf Smedvig (Gabrieli and Led Zeppelin)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Orli Shaham (Instant Feedback)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Orli Shaham, Credit: Christian Steiner
Pianist Orli Shaham dreams of playing in front of the enthusiastic and traditionally very responsive audiences that attend the figure skating compe...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
Homophobic Songs Spark Debate Over Human Rights vs Artistic License
From: Jonah Engle
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A look at the growing campaign against homophobic dancehall songs

Bought by WBHM and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Marin Alsop (Oops, Excuse Me)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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At the heart of Brahms' first two symphonies, conductor Marin Alsop hears great joy, especially at the end, where both symphonies finish with a tri...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: :21
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Science Fiction Piano)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Piano Concerto No. 5 by Saint-Saens is known as the "Egyptian" Concerto, because it includes a melody from a song Saint-Saens heard while vacat...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (French Hypnotist)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has recorded nearly every piano work by Erik Satie. His music could be melancholy and mysterious. Thibaudet says Sati...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :23
SALMONELLA Confirmed in Alamosa Water - SOUND BYTES 3/24/08
From: Miles Eddy
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SALMONELLA Confirmed in Alamosa Water Supply - SOUND BYTES from 3/24/08 Press Briefing.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:35
The Struggle
From: Anton Foek
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story of a neglected and forgotten war in Africa

Bought by WMFO


  • Added: Nov 06, 2007
  • Length: 16:33
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Michael Torke (Early Repuation)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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If you're a well established performer, writer or artist of any kind, you're likely to have your fans tell you they like your early work the best. ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: :20
Jenny or the abuse of Native American women, part II
From: Anton Foek
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Karin Artichoker, director of the shelter program in Kyle talks to us

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WGDR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Jenny or the abuse of Native American women
From: Anton Foek
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The forgotten story of Jenny, an abused native woman in South Dakota

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 06:49
Epicentro Latino: Spanish and English. Are We a Bilingual Nation? (2 of 4)
From: Rebeca Logan
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Hispanic issues, history, politics

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTSW 89.9, 90.5 WSNC, KBRP Community Radio, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Virtuoso Voices - John Adams (Grumpy Players)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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As talented and exceptionally skilled as today's orchestra musicians may be, there are plenty of living composers whose music still presents a chal...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Is Legalizing Drugs an Option?
From: Anton Foek
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interview with Prof. McCoy, University of Wisconsin

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2007
  • Length: 15:24
  • Purchases: 1
Teasers for "SisterLove: Keeping it Real, Globally!"
From: Noah Chandler
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Short teasers for the the series "SisterLove: Keeping it Real, Globally"

  • Added: May 09, 2007
  • Length: 02:18
Greg Palast, Santa Fe Apr 29 07 with poet Coral Bernal
From: Cultural Energy
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Greg Palast speaking on his book "Armed Madhouse"

  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 59:21
Tejidos Culturales #8: Culture and La Sierra...Taylor Ranch part 2
From: KRZA
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Eight in a 13 part series focussing on culture in the San Luis Valley, this is part 2 in looking at La Sierra or Taylor Ranch which was illegaly cl...

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KWCW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2006
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (No Way Sibelius)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What really motivated Sibelius to write his Violin Concerto? Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg says he wrote this "ridiculously, unnecessarily aw...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Tejidos Culturales #7: Who Chained the Road up, y quien es Jack Taylor?
From: KRZA
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In this program we look at the closing off of a Land Grant easment by Jack Taylor, the decision in this will set precedent for land rights all over...

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Oct 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 4-The Chicano Movement
From: KRZA
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Cultural Program focussing on the Chicano Movement in the San Luis Valley, CO.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 24: Interview with Joni Cole
From: Gary Smith
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An interview with Joni Cole, author, "This Day: Diaries from Women Across America"

  • Added: Apr 23, 2006
  • Length: 30:03
Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
From: Janis Shields
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Exploring the enduring "attraction" of war

Bought by WCPN, KPFT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 3
Dog Park: It's the STUFF, man
From: TL Wagner
Series: Finding The One (paying listener) at the Dog Park
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Finding the one in ten listener who s a member

Bought by WHRV and KTNA


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 2
Saving baby; another harrowing tale of escape and evacuation.
From: Laura Ziegler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer g...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 04:20
Why I am a Democrat
From: Pete Mills
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Democrat Promo

  • Added: Oct 12, 2005
  • Length: 01:19

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