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HARM 24-15: Listening to Art: Angel Concerts, 4/8/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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If you’ve spent any time in the early European wing at your local art museum, you might have noticed just how musical religious art can be. This we...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Tony Bennett - I will do this for the rest of my life
From: Sedge Thomson
Caption: Tony Bennett and Sedge Thomson on West Coast Live, Freight and Salvage venue, Berkeley, CA Nov 14, 1998
Tony Bennett was one of the greats, and his relaxed modesty gives us insight to the values he held to keep singing, despite "the bobbing and weavin...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 22:00
Piping Up For Community (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Brian Donaldson is one of the most accomplished pipers in the world - winning many of the major awards and even performing in front of the queen of...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Piping Up For Community (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Brian Donaldson is one of the most accomplished pipers in the world - winning many of the major awards and even performing in front of the queen of...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, WFHB, WJCU and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Piping Up For Community (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Brian Donaldson is one of the most accomplished pipers in the world - winning many of the major awards and even performing in front of the queen of...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KHEN-LP, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Piping Up For Community (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Brian Donaldson is one of the most accomplished pipers in the world - winning many of the major awards and even performing in front of the queen of...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRGY, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
NL 21-25: Music in All Things: W. Eugene Smith, 6/14/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Author Sam Stephenson talks with us about the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith and the ways in which his life intersected with New York City'...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
From Community Dance to Dance Community: Recalling the Old Farmer's Ball
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: The original Farmer's Ball, and an OFB dance today, Credit: Phil Jameson/Carla Seidl
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
Kaia Kater speaks with Steve Martin about her background in music and her soon to be released CD "Grenades" on Smithsonian Folkways
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Caption: Steve Marti, host receiving the 2018 IBMA Broadcaster of the Year Award
Kaia Kater has received acclaim for all genres for her new folk sound, she spoke to Steve Martin about her background and the new release.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 26:32
NL 18-33: Music In All Things: W. Eugene Smith And The Jazz Loft, 8/13/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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From the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s a five-story building in the heart of Manhattan served as a gathering place for jazz musicians and other a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
Bill Frisell: The Guitar is My Voice
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Bill Frisell was heavily influenced by surf rock and space travel. Hear him in his own words tell you his origin story. Lots of great music in this...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 12:15
Travels with Maya Angelou, Ellis Marsalis, Sandra Izsadore and Michelle Wood
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Cover of "I See the Rhythm of Gospel" book, Credit: Michelle Wood
Sharing American history and travel through the legendary voices of Maya Angelou and Ellis Marsalis along with well-known artists Sandra Izsadore a...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
A Conversation with Conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 30:49
  • Purchases: 2
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
Episode 28: Collecting the past
From: Cate Morrison
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We time travel backwards to talk vinyl, old sounds and collecting records

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
JazzStories: Benny Golson
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...

Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 19:40
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Todd Barkan Part II
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Todd Barkan
"One of the greatest joys I have had in my musical career has been providing employment for musicians, actually handing them [work]. Now I hand th...

Bought by KALW, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 19:52
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Doug Wamble
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“The essential ingredient of jazz is listening. And then the response... and out of that something unexpected comes rather than some fulfillment of...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:29
  • Purchases: 4
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