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Virtuoso Voices - Mark O’Connor (Appalachia Waltz)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Mark O'Connor, Credit: Jim McGuire
What makes American music American? Composer and violinist Mark O’Connor tries to tell that story – or history – in his “Appalachia Waltz.” Use th...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :33
Virtuoso Voices - Mark O’Connor (American Journey)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Mark O'Connor, Credit: Jim McGuire
Composer Mark O’Connor says there’s a “stir fry” element that defines American music. People from different lands stirred their own musical experi...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :28
Virtuoso Voices - Carol Wincenc (Poetic License)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Carol Wincenc, Credit: Cori Wells Braun
The “Poem” by Charles Tomlinson Griffes is, in a way, one of the quintessential American works for flute and orchestra. But flutist Carol Wincenc ...

  • Added: May 30, 2010
  • Length: :14
Virtuoso Voices - Semyon Bychkov (Obsession)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Semyon Bychkov
The “Symphonic Dances for Orchestra” is one of the best known works Rachmaninoff wrote after a long and punishing creative drought. The Dances rep...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Semyon Bychkov (Still Rachmaninoff)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Semyon Bychkov
Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff suffered the musical equivalent of writer’s block for three agonizing years. When he finally emerged from his creativ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: :22
A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (Part 2)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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Author Gary Giddins joins host Dick Golden to discuss Louis Armstrong's life in music. Many seminal Armstrong recordings are featured.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:36
A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (Part 1)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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Author Gary Giddins joins host Dick Golden to discuss Louis Armstrong's life in music. Many seminal Armstrong recordings are featured.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 1
A Tribute to Fats Waller (Part 2)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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A profile of jazz pioneer and celebrated composer Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 1
A Tribute to Fats Waller (Part 1)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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A profile of jazz pioneer and celebrated composer Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:12
  • Purchases: 1
Abraham Lincoln's Portrait (Part 2)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer joins host Dick Golden to paint a portrait of America's 16th president through words and the music of Tony Bennett.

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Jan 23, 2010
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 1
Abraham Lincoln's Portrait (Part 1)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer joins host Dick Golden to paint a portrait of America's 16th president through words and the music of Tony Bennett.

Bought by KUCB and KUT


  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 57:28
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Michael Tilson Thomas ("Keeping Score": Outsider Music)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Michael Tilson Thomas
The PBS Series, "Keeping Score" returned with a series of three programs, each devoted to a single composer and one of their pivotal pieces of musi...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2009
  • Length: :30
Virtuoso Voices - Thomas Stacy (Goodbye Leonard Bernstein)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Thomas Stacy, Credit: Chris Lee
As the English horn player for the New York Philharmonic, Thomas Stacy says he's been privileged to work with some of the finest conductors from se...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jul 27, 2009
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Andrew Litton (Safety Net)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Andrew Litton, Credit: Steve J. Sherman
The challenge to successfully bringing off a virtuoso concerto is as challenging to the conductor as it is to the soloist... well almost as challen...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jul 25, 2009
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Radio Rock Special Edition: Michael Jackson Tribute
From: John Covach
Caption: John Covach, host
In this special edition of the weekly show Radio Rock, host John Covach provides a musical survey of Michael Jackson's music and career.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Jul 01, 2009
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (New and Recycled)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Jean-Yves Thibaudet
The Piano Concerto No. 2 by Liszt basically consists of one short theme that the composer recycles multiple times. While the melody is continually...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 1
Show 1: Dylan as Poet
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Dr. Bill King
Introduction to this series on Bob Dylan's Poetics with focus on "To Ramona"

Bought by WCNY, Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 12
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Autumn Nostalgia)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Among the many colors, sounds or inflections a clarinetist can draw from their instrument is a sense of nostalgia. That makes the Autumn Song by T...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2008
  • Length: :32
Virtuoso Voices - James Conlon (Categorical Discomfort)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Composer Alexander Zemlinsky was one of several German composers who ran afoul of the German government in the early 20th century. Conductor James...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2008
  • Length: :24
Virtuoso Voices - James Conlon (How Ugly Was He?)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Alexander Zemlinsky is one of several early 20th century German composers whose music was suppressed by the Nazis prior to World War Two. Conducto...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2008
  • Length: :23
Vivaldi For All Seasons: Program One
From: WILL
Series: Vivaldi For All Seasons
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One of four programs exploring the instrumental music of Antonio Vivaldi.

Bought by WMNR, WUAL, WUGA (part of GPB), Connecticut Public (WNPR), WMUK and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17
Vivaldi For All Seasons: Program Two
From: WILL
Series: Vivaldi For All Seasons
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One of four programs exploring the instrumental music of Antonio Vivaldi.

Bought by WMNR, WUGA (part of GPB), Connecticut Public (WNPR), WMUK, WCQS and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 15
Vivaldi For All Seasons: Program Four
From: WILL
Series: Vivaldi For All Seasons
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One of four programs exploring the instrumental music of Antonio Vivaldi.

Bought by KHEN-LP, WMNR, WUGA (part of GPB), South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WMUK and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 16
Vivaldi For All Seasons: Program Three
From: WILL
Series: Vivaldi For All Seasons
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One of four programs exploring the instrumental music of Antonio Vivaldi.

Bought by WMNR, WUGA (part of GPB), South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WMUK, WCQS and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 58:39
  • Purchases: 15