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Although the practice is as old as music itself, taking a piece of music for one instrument and adapting it to another still causes scowls and glar...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :19
Some concertos contain multiple technical and virtuosic challenges. Playing through them all can be an exhausting physical experience, similar to ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :26
There's your driver's license, your passport, and if you're clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, your clarinet sound is another proof of I-D. Use this 2...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :26
"Who were your influences?" That's one of the questions artists and performers from all fields hate to be asked. It may have to do with how many ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :26
Debussy's First Rhapsody for Clarinet began as a contest piece for students at the Paris Conservatory. That explains the presence of the virtuoso ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :26
Carl Maria von Weber wrote quite a bit of solo music for the clarinet, and much of it is highly dramatic and virtuosic. Weber tended to think of i...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :22
NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young is still playing, after all these years.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 9
NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young discusses his craft and his solo in "Uptown Blues."
Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 7
For the Canadian Brass, their dream to play in Carnegie Hall came true in part because the players happily did something most musicians avoid, or d...
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: :22
Very few things could be duller than a discussion about violin bows, unless you're a violinist. But a good bow does make a difference. Violinist ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2008
- Length: :24
When violinist Joshua Bell plays or records with an orchestra, he has a couple of priorities and preferences for those who join him on stage or in ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
- Length: :24
There are 161 recordings of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 162 recordings of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Joshua Bell has recorded both of t...
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
- Length: :18
How do performers create and craft the direction of their interpretation of the music they perform? Pianist Lang Lang brings an active imagination...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :25
If you've ever seen the pianist Lang Lang play, you know he performs with great animation and enormous, physical gusto. Here's a little background...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :24
For some performers, making recordings is their bread and butter. Violinist Joshua Bell, on the other hand, is somewhat ambivalent about walking i...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :21
To get an orchestra of 60 or 100 players to play like one is the eternal challenge for a conductor. Every orchestra is different but conductor JoA...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :29
Is there an "American sound" when it comes to classical music? Conductor JoAnn Falletta makes this case for Aaron Copland. Use this 25 second cli...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :25
Whether you're making a speech or a presentation in public, you hope you've got some friends in the audience. That extra support is something viol...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :21
Dutch violinist Janine Jansen comes from a musical family, and "family time" meant playing chamber music at home. She says working in that more in...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
For your Fundraising campaign, violinist Joshua Bell asks your listeners to complete the Public Radio Listening-Funding circle. Use this 27 second...
Bought by WAUS FM, KZYX, KUHF, WSKG, North State Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
- Purchases: 16
20th century Russian composers like Dmitri Shostakovich were expected to write what the Party defined as "proper" Russian music. And even though S...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
Pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is not quite sure what's more amazing - that Beethoven wrote so many remarkable pieces of music, or that h...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :22
The Dutch violinist Janine Jansen has an all-Bach CD that includes the Partita Number 2. At the heart of the Partita is a slow and meditative move...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
Composer Jennifer Higdon is one of the busiest, most performed and most acclaimed American composers today. From her vantage point, she understand...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
The musician's life is a humbling up and down journey towards perfection, or at least musical expression on the highest level. If you don't get it...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
