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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
Sergio Cervetti left his native Uruguay in 1962 to study composition in the United States. From 1972 to 1997 and 2007-08, Cervetti was Master Teach...
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- Length: 58:29
Binary bop begins the journey of spins and needles, drummer Stockton Helbing sounds pristine alongside veterans Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie. D...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and WYAP
- Added: Dec 15, 2015
- Length: 01:59:55
- Purchases: 5
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
On the red carpet for their broadway musical, "On Your Feet!", Gloria and Emilio Estefan talk about their fight as outsiders in the beginning, thei...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 03:05
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
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
Totó La Momposina has brought Afro-Colombian roots to the world and with a new Real World Records release, her music is more vital than ever.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 01:55
The Spirit prevails for guitarist Mark Whitfield and the inimitable John Coltrane. Vintage big band and small group sounds swing with Bill Holman a...
Bought by WYAP, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WOUB
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 5
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
Musician Marco Polo Santiago was raised in L.A., in a big Mexican-American family, with the sound of cumbia always in the background. He grew up to...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 09:13
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
Blues and swing precede post bop for openers, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock. Bop then and now, the Bird and Germany's ja...
Bought by WYAP, WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WOUB
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 01:59:57
- Purchases: 5
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
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
Latin Perspective, Latin Jazz weekly show.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WICR, WJAB, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 14, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
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
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
Berkeley-based singer songwriter Diana Gameros comes from Ciudad Juárez -- a Mexican border town ripped apart by violent drug cartels. Gameros hasn...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 03:44
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
“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
Music from San Antonio to New Orleans as the "Gulf Coast Sound." Often coming from Huey Meaux's Crazy Cajun record label but there is a audio conn...
- Added: Sep 20, 2015
- Length: 02:50:03
- Purchases: 2
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
He helped develop the Folk Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts and he's been head of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Now, Dan Shee...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, KPVL, and WNJR
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
