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4 works, including RT: Fratres for violin, strings and percuss.. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Kahane; Margaret Batjer, violin.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including HAYDN: Scherzando No. 3. Haydn Sinfonietta Wien/Manfred Huss.

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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4 works, including BACH: flute Trio in C; Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute.

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including HERBERT: American Fantasia. St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including BOCCHERINI: Symphony in D, G 500. Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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4 works, including MUFFAT: Sonata in D. Trio Settecento.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon Overture. Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon Overture. Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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4 works, including HAYDN: Symphony No. 99 in E flat. Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Helmut Müller-Brühl.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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4 works, including HAYDN: Symphony No. 99 in E flat. Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Helmut Müller-Brühl.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including BRUCH: Kol Nidrei, Op. 47. London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras; Ofra Harnoy, cello.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including HASSE: Sinfonia, Op. 5, #6. Concerto Köln (ancnt. instr.)/Pablo Heras-Casado.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: Fans at the Beatles only concert in Minnesota, Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In the summer of 1965, the Beatles were the hottest act in the world. And for the first — and only time — John, Paul, George and Ringo were coming ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 35:39
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
Caption: Illustration of the Cedar-Riverside West Bank Neighborhood, Credit: Illustrator Kevin Cannon
The Cedar-Riverside West Bank neighborhood in Minneapolis has a rich cultural history and long tradition of community art-making. Jamie Schumacher ...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
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Libraries weren't always located in their own stately buildings. Many of our branches used to operate out of pharmacies, laundry rooms, storefronts...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 26:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jack "Boogie B" Riley and Charles Thorstad a.k.a. Stepchild, Credit: Bao Lee Riley
Despite being far removed from places like New York, Los Angeles, or Houston, Minneapolis and St. Paul and their suburbs have earned some hip-hop s...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:46
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Dandelion seeds blowback on to their stem making a few lights in the way lines look like they were pulsing morse code, letters replaced.  A single ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 15:59
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Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton explores the education of famous artists John Biggers and Samella Lewis.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 50:20
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Items have gone missing from the state capitol and she’s determined to find them. On this episode of Culture Clique we talk to Natalie Heneghan who...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 23:13
Caption: 'The Underworld' by Kevin Canty
Kevin Canty discusses his novel, 'The Underworld,' along with the nature of the human experience and Canty's own creative process. He also reads fr...

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Jazz historians and his own son, Fitz, share why writer and jazz adovcate, Ira Gitler is a Jazz Master.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 13
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In today's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley wraps up the story of Deep In Design's stamping press. Last week we heard how the company inhe...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:14
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley meets with Drew Coomer, a poet, author, musician, and creator of The Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten R...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
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Angela Robins, former intern at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, was back in town to speak at the Wooden Boat Show about Japanese boatbuild...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:44