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Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the most important 20th century English composers. He spent years traveling the country collecting English folk s...
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.
- Added: Nov 03, 2013
- Length: 59:00
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Benjamin Britten was asked to compose music for a film that explained the instruments of the orchestra to children. Britten borrowed a tune by one ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Benjamin Britten was asked to compose music for a film that explained the instruments of the orchestra to children. Britten borrowed a tune by one ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
Pizzicato is the Italian word for “plucked” -- it tells string players how to play their instruments at a given spot in the music. A lot of musical...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Benjamin Britten composed his Simple Symphony when he was twenty, but he based it on music that he'd written much earlier -- some of it when he was...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In November, 2013 it ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
Appropriately spooky classical music for Halloween.
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
Music by composers who were playing with fire.
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
The story of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird.
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
An exploration of the fee structure, history, success, facts, figures and alleged finagling of the ubiquitous American ticket company.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 22, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 15, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Aug 15, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
The Life and Music of Clara Schumann
- Added: Aug 15, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
The Life and Music of Robert Schumann
- Added: Aug 15, 2013
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 3
The Star Club was a music venue in Hamburg, Germany, best known as the club where The Beatles cut their teeth. This week we get a glimpse into the...
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
It's the ups, downs, ins and outs of the record company started by Neil Bogart on this episode of Rock School. Bogart grabbed three colleagues, a w...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The Hoe-Down from Aaron Copland's ballet Rodeo has been heard in a commercial for the Beef Council. Lots classical music turns up in commercials. H...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
Copland's Rodeo launched the career of Agnes de Mille.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, WQXR, and KUHF
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
American composer Aaron Copland wrote two cowboy ballets during his career.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, WQXR, and KUHF
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 59:00
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Ives loved to put hymns into his music. A look at other 20th Century American composers who did the same.
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
