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As part of the Latin plays jazz series, this particular show features latin jazz renditions of legendary pianist Herbie Hancock performed by Latin ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMUW, WJAB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WICR and more


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
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Guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque and the rising stars Kaia String Quartet, are featured in exclusive recordings of works for guitar and string quartet ...

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  • Length: 58:29
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The Latino Music Festival celebrated this year its 10th anniversary with a spectacular program presented all across Chicago. Fiesta features a sele...

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  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Lila Trujillo and Julia Cooper join writer Meg Medina to discuss her book.
Book Club for Kids goes to Hooray For Books! bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia to talk about Meg Medina's novel about bullying and mother-daughter ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:33
Caption: Kaiden, Francisco, Kevin, Jefferson, and Nicholas are fifth graders at Thomson and Two Rivers Elementary Schools in Washington, DC.
These 5th graders love Tom Angleberger's "Origami Yoda" books so much, they formed a book club devoted to folding paper...and writing letters to th...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 20:46
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An Hour of Jazz (Latin Jazz Percussion) is an enjoyable program for all listeners of all ages. It will keep your toes tapping.

Bought by KZYX, WSLR, and WTIP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:12
  • Purchases: 3
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How do you do, we have over 40 years associated with jazz radio here in the desert southwest. In hour one of this week's national broadcast, guest ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WYAP, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 5
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During the golden age of Hollywood, countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina also developed their own healthy movie industries. Smaller nations ...

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  • Length: 58:29
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The improvement of the relationship between Cuba and the US has attracted new attention toward everything related to the island. Fiesta revisits th...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Since the 1920’s Argentine and Uruguayan composers have been using tango as a tool for breaking the wall between popular and classical music. Tango...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Straight ahead sounds start right out of the gate, the great Sarah Vaughan makes a timely statement. Roland Kirk flute goes well in the dead of ju...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 4
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Premiered at La Scala Theater in Milan in May of 1870 under the its Italian title of Il Guarany, this opera by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Go...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Elbio welcomes friend and fellow Uruguayan Carlos Kalmar to our WFMT studio to talk about his orchestras and life as a conductor.

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  • Length: 58:30
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Let’s pretend that you go to your local orchestra hall and instead of the usual concert menu, you get to listen to a 19th century overture by Braz...

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  • Length: 58:29
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During the last century a huge number of Western composers took a direction that divorced them from their potential audiences and entrenched them i...

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  • Length: 58:30
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The Newberry Consort has been focusing on Early music from Spain and New Spain (as present day Mexico was known when it was a part of the Spanish e...

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  • Length: 58:29
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The sonata is a musical term in use for almost four centuries. Latin American composers have also cultivated this venerable form. Fiesta! features ...

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  • Length: 58:29
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The anthems of most of the Latin American countries were composed in the 19th century under the influence of both recent war and Italian opera. The...

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  • Length: 58:29

  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Euzkadi, also known as the Basque country, represents one of the several ways of being a Spaniard or is it something else? It depends on whom you ...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Argentine born and based in New York, Veronica Loiacono, is a soprano of amazing versatility who feels at home in the opera repertoire as well as i...

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  • Length: 58:29
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The author of the very popular Huapango, considered as the second Mexican anthem, composed several symphonic, chamber pieces of great importance. F...

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  • Length: 58:29
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“The Vision of the Vanquished” or “La voz de los vencidos”, a book by Mexican historian Miguel León Portilla was very instrumental in changing the ...

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  • Length: 58:30
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The first half of the 20th century saw the incredible popularity of an exclusively Spanish genre: the zarzuela. It can be defined, superficially, a...

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  • Length: 58:29