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The Spanish Hour 2425: Enfoque: Jorge Morel
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Jorge Morel
This week, we focus on Argentine guitarist and composer Jorge Morel, with recordings of his works performed by David Starobin, David Russell, Hilar...

Bought by KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 29
The Spanish Hour 2424: Spanish Guitar Classics
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: "La jota" by Joaquín Sorolla , Aragón (1914)
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. Joaquín Rodrigo believed this to be the best definition ever given of the Spanish gu...

Bought by WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
The Spanish Hour 2422: Music for Two Guitars
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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Chopin wrote that the only thing more beautiful than one guitar is two guitars. On today’s show, we prove him right.

Bought by WCQS, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, WRGY, KVNO and more


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
The Spanish Hour 2421: Profile: Francisco Tárrega
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Guitarist Slava Grigoryan
On this edition of The Spanish Hour, we explore the genius of the composer known as the “Sarasate of the guitar.” Francisco Tárrega’s works are cha...

Bought by KUER, WCQS, KMUN, KVNO, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 43
The Spanish Hour 2420: Guitar Potpourri
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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A guitar potpourri, featuring works from Latin America and Spain by Joaquín Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, and Antonio Lauro.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WCQS, KMUN, KUER, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 46
The Spanish Hour 2419: Argentina: More Than Just Tango
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Argentine mezzo Bernarda Fink
The tango may be Argentina's best-known musical export, but it's far from the only musical expression to be discovered. On this edition of The Span...

Bought by WCQS, WRTI, KMUN, KVNO, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 48
The Spanish Hour 2413: Falla and the Theater
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Pablo Picasso theater curtain for The Three-Cornered Hat, 1919
In 1904, Carlos Fernandez Shaw introduced Manuel de Falla to "The Three-cornered hat," Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s satire of village life in Andaluc...

Bought by WRTI, WCQS, WXXI Rochester, KVNO, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
The Spanish Hour 2410: Paseo Latinoamericano
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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Classical and traditional music of Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as a work by a North-American composer with Peruvian, Chinese, Lit...

Bought by WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE, KRZA, KVNO and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 21
The Spanish Hour 2408: Transcribed and Transformed
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Guitarist-composer Jorge Caballero
A program of well-known Spanish keyboard and orchestral treasures transcribed for guitar and heard anew.

Bought by KUER, KSJE, WRTI, KMUN, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
The Spanish Hour 2407: Classics from Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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20th-century South American classcis from Argentina’s Carlos Guastavino to Chile’s Juan Antonio Sánchez to Venezuela’s Evencio Castellanos.

Bought by KSJE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, KMUN, WCQS and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 37
The Spanish Hour 2405: Dances, Impressions & Rhapsodies
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Quena (Andean bamboo flute)
From Joaquín Rodrigo to Ernesto Lecuona to Alberto Ginastera to Gabriela Lena Frank, old and new favorites from Spain and Latin America.

Bought by KSJE, WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KMUN, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 21
The Spanish Hour 2402: Invitation to the Dance
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: John Singer Sargent: "El Jaleo"
A program recorded live in concert of Spanish and Latin American music of some of the most recognizable and beloved popular dances of Spain. Habane...

Bought by KSJE, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, WCQS, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 48
Seeking Asylum
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City. We look at how one faith-based organization is responding to the continuing crisis in the hope ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 24:27
Buscando Asilo
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Este episodio es sobre los solicitantes de asilo en la ciudad de Nueva York. Estamos compartiendo estas narrativas personales con la esperanza de q...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 24:56
A Place of Refuge
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Last year, New York City began to see an increase in the number of migrants seeking asylum. The library is a small part of the city-wide response t...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 17:18
Puerto Rico Rising - Resisting Paradise
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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This segment of our Puerto Rico Rising series revolves around creative resistance to foreign fantasies of ‘paradise.’ The conversation exposes a fe...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 18:12
Memorabilia
From: Martine Chaussard
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Memorabilia is about a grown man reconnecting with rituals and memories from his childhood. It's about some good old sports collectibles. And my an...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
English for Detainees (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the immigration debate heating up once again, two Virginia professors are taking their students to ICE detention centers in an effort to bust ...

Bought by KENW, KRZA, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 4
The Snake on the Lake Was Not a Mistake: The Rise of Modern Mexico City
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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In this personal exploration with radio-drama elements, a group of students tries to understand how such an enormous city, with such a large popula...

  • Added: May 21, 2017
  • Length: 17:13
Crossing Over
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Master mason Victor Ayala, Credit: CharlesMcGuigan
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
A pastor teaches unaccompanied migrant girls to sew
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: Pastor Monsalve preaches from her storefront church in Torrance, California., Credit: Phoenix Tso
Margarita Monsalve operates a sewing circle in Torrance, California, where unaccompanied migrant girls from Central America find a strong community...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 1
Cooking With Love (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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Mexico’s passionate soccer fans and colorful fiestas are in full gear for the World Cup. Lilia Fuquen reports that perhaps the strongest pillar of...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Defensor FC - vanguards of Uruguayan youth soccer
From: Ben Weisz
Caption: Defensor's newest recruits? , Credit: Ben Weisz 2013
For its 3 million inhabitants, Uruguay really punches above its weight in footballing terms. How does it achieve such success in international socc...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
Mexico Uncovered
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: Host, Daniel Hernandez
One hour special, taking listeners to the Mexico they don't know, untold stories rich in sound, place and humanity, with host Daniel Hernandez. Th...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGOU, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 36
Transgender Activist Works to Help LGBT Latinos
From: Lauren Ober
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Since immigrating to Washington, D.C. from El Salvador as a teenager, Ruby Corado has had big dreams. But as a transgender Latina, it hasn’t always...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 05:12