PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative

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

1095 results


Piece image
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
Caption: José Serebrier
Conductor Arturo Toscanini was known as the poster child for bad behavior on the podium. Fortunately, the days of the yelling, screaming, raging t...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :25
Piece image
Dred-Scott Keyes and Bernard White interview Jamaican poet Mutabaruka.

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WNCU, and WNCU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
From 2006, John talks about the challenge of scoring Superman Returns and mixing his music with the themes of John Williams.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 27:39
Piece image
American icon Nina Simone in words and music

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WFUV, WKMS, KNKX, KPSQ-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 54
Piece image
The political difficulties that ruled the life of Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich were more than just minor aggravations. His refusal to fol...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: :27

  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hip Hop Star Emmanuel Jal talks about being a child soldier and his newest album, War Child

  • Added: Aug 27, 2008
  • Length: 13:26

  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:13
  • Purchases: 5
Piece image
If you've ever lived next door to a musician, or lived under the same roof, you're more than familiar with the musician's practicing routine. That...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: :25
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Kira believes that music listener's have ADD.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:38
Piece image
The ambient house pioneers The Orb talk about their sample and slice journey.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Piece image
His CD "One" brings global vocal traditions together

  • Added: Jun 04, 2008
  • Length: 03:32
Caption: Emmanuel Pahud, Credit: Photo by Shelia Rock
When the soloist and orchestra are playing a concerto, who's in charge? Is it the soloist, the conductor - the orchestra? Someone has to make sur...

  • Added: May 31, 2008
  • Length: :20
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Will Shade, founder of the popular Memphis Jug Band, buried in a pauper's grave had no headstone, until 2008.

  • Added: May 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
Piece image
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
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
Studies show that many areas of your brain process music.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
Piece image
One of the true musical pioneers release a brand new album

  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 01:01:11
Piece image
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
Piece image
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