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Musician's Spotlight - Kerson Leong - 864
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Acclaimed concert violinist Kerson Leong visits with host John Floridis to talk about his career and recordings ahead of an appearance in Montana i...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
S08 Ep29: Looking East, Part 4, 3/16/2024
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, music from women whose roots lie in the east - China, Japan, India and Korea.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
WOS 23-35 / NCPA 24-04: Debussy, Berlioz, Chen, and Saint-Saëns, 2/27/2024
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The WFMT Orchestra Series
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Based on an old melody by ancient composer Huan Yi, Chen Qigang’s Reflet d’un temps disparu is stunningly performed by cellist Gautier Capuçon. The...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30
WOS 23-34 / NCPA 24-03: Bruckner’s Seventh & Guo’s Riyue Mountain, 2/20/2024
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The WFMT Orchestra Series
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Guo Wenjing’s Passacaglia for Orchestra is a work inspired by prehistoric rock paintings in ancient caves on Riyue Mountain. Li Biao leads the orch...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30
WOS 23-33 / NCPA 24-02: Zhou & Mahler in Beijing, 2/13/2024
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The WFMT Orchestra Series
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We'll hear Gustav Mahler's dramatic and passionate Symphony No. 6, as well as Zhou Jiping's luscious Concerto for Violin, featuring eminent soloist...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30
WOS 23-32 / NCPA 24-01: Celebrating the Chinese New Year, 2/6/2024
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The WFMT Orchestra Series
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We bring in the Chinese New Year with the National Centre for Performing Arts, led by conductors Lü Jia, Peng Jiapeng, and Chen Lin. Works include ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30
Modern Notebook for February 4 - 10, 2024 (Ep. 231)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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The Lunar New Year is coming up on February 10, and on the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline we are celebrating with music about the moon and w...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Connecticut Public (WNPR), KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 7
Musician's Spotlight - Sunny Jain - 844
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Drummer and composer Sunny Jain, the creative force behind the Bhangra fusion of Red Baraat as well as numerous other projects visits with host Jo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Rhythm Atlas 271 2023-01-16 Lunar New Year
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this week's episode of The Rhythm Atlas, you'll hear a set of music in celebration of Lunar New Year, a track from the debut album by Montreal g...

Bought by KHNS, Spokane Public Radio, and KAMU


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Musician's Spotlight - Julia Tai - 817
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Northwest conductor and musical director, and the Co-Artistic Director of the Seattle Modern Orchestr...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Celebrate AAPI Month with Roy and PJ Hirabayashi and guitarist Led Kaapana
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Led Kaapana, Credit: Marsha Forsythe, Cover Look Photo Corps
To kick off our celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are revisiting two interviews with cultural...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WDCB, KECG, WRGY, KUT and more


  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Musician's Spotlight - Randall Goosby - 802
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Violinist Randall Goosby’s much anticipated debut recording is featured along with conversation with host John Floridis on the next Musician’s Spot...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Meet Heartbeat Opera and Its Artistic Director Ethan Heard
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ethan Heard, Credit: Stanley Bohorek
Ethan Heard and Heartbeat Opera re-visions opera for the 21st Century.

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 3
UpFront Soul #2021.16 -April 19-25
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Eddie Harris
We'll get caught in the rain with The Cougars, The Dramatics, and East Coast Love Affair featuring Peter Hunnigale, spin a set of Asian funk & soul...

Bought by KAAD-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, WLPR , Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
S05 Ep29: Looking East, Part 3, 3/20/2021
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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Our trip around the globe continues as we look East to Asia, and the blend of Eastern and Western music.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
Chenango Sessions 86: Hiroya Tsukamoto | Newberry & Verch
From: Andru Bemis
Series: Chenango Sessions
Caption: Hiroya Tsukamoto
Composer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan. Plus a few Christmas songs from the Newberry & Verch "Holiday Cheer" tour.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Musician's Spotlight -Tanya Gabrielian Part Two - 741
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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How could a freak accident during a Kung Fu class change the life of a concert pianist? Hailed by the London Times as "a pianist of powerful physic...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 4
Musician's Spotlight -Tanya Gabrielian Part One - 740
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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How could a freak accident during a Kung Fu class change the life of a concert pianist? Hailed by the London Times as "a pianist of powerful physic...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 4
WoodSongs 996: Michael Martin Murphey and Mihoko Goto
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Accordion master Mihoko Goto on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes one of the most revered and accomplished singer songwriters of his genera...

Bought by KDLG, KTRL, WOUB, KDLG, KLCC and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Musician's Spotlight - Riyaaz Qawwali - 691
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Riyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia. The ensemble’s musicians, who are settled in the United States, hail from Indi...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
80 Land of the Red Dragon
From: KCME
Series: Dinner and a Movie
Caption: Film music you remember, even if you've forgotten the film.
In honor of the Chinese New Year, Robert Bruce and Quinn Riley explore film scores from movies taking place in China: The Land of the Red Dragon.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 3
Ashe Bhosle's onions
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Ashe Bhosle in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Once Asha effortlessly brought India to my kitchen in California. Now she transported me from a balmy night in a park in Kolkata to a foggy evening...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Baluji Shrivastav has an Inner Vision
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Baluji Shrivastav, Credit: Sandip Roy
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns. But Baluji...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Purple Angel
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Taher Shah
India and Pakistan have much in common but, lately an angel in purple has united the prickly neighbors in gobsmacked amazement.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Gao Hong's Foray into the Field of World Music Adds to Her Musical Catalog
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Gao Hong w/pipa, Credit: Photo Provided by World Music Professionals
Gao Hong came from China to America in 1994. Already established as a world-class player of the Chinese pipa, she has gotten interested in the west...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:40