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The rise of big bands in the 1930s and 40s played a key role in the popularization of jazz, and provided a soundtrack for Americans navigating a ch...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: May 06, 2024
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
Sounds Jewish celebrates the Purim holiday with a global Jewish playlist meant to boost your mood.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 23, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
On this week’s program, we celebrate the artistic legacy of Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza, who died May 13, 2022 at the age of 89. Joining ...
Bought by KSJE, KVNO, WRTI, WXXI Rochester, WCQS and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2024
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 15
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue turns 100. WQXR marks the occasion with a look at how this iconic piece of classical music came to be, and how i...
Bought by KWAX and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Series finale. Serge Koussevitzky conducts the London Philharmonic in a breathtaking live performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth.
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
1950 proved to be conductor Serge Koussevitzky's final year at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony. The season featured four recordi...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Conductor Serge Koussevitzky championed the music of Prokofiev in Russia, France and the United States. We present three of Koussevitzky's greatest...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Bela Bartok lay dying in a New York hospital when Serge Koussevitzky paid him a visit and commissioned a new work. The composer, at least temporari...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Serge Koussevitzky's path-breaking recordings of Tapiola, Pohjola's Daughter and Symphony 7 by Sibelius are featured. Boston Symphony members Harry...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Serge Koussevitzky's passion for American music was unquenchable. We present his peerless recordings of music by Cowell, Hanson, Piston & Copland p...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Tanglewood has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony since 1936, and Serge Koussevitzky made many of his most memorable recordings there. We ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Immortal conductor Serge Koussevitzky traced a 'central line' in the music of the great composers. We present his thoughts on and recordings of sel...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Serge Koussevitzky brought Debussy to Russia for memorable concerts with his orchestra in 1913. We follow the composer's trail to Moscow and St. Pe...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Record producer Charles O'Connell's book provides at intimate portrait of the home life of conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his wife Natalie. Music...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Instrumental color was fundamental to conductor Serge Koussevitzky's art as demonstrated by his recordings of Ravel's Bolero & Mussorgsky's Picture...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Phenomenal maestro Serge Koussevitzky's gifts as an 'animateur' (animator) enliven music by Corelli, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky.
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Legendary conductor Serge Koussevitzky explains the goals he set for himself as incoming Music Director of the Boston Symphony in 1924 and performs...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
A celebration of soprano Maria Callas's voice, life, and legacy in honor of her centennial.
Bought by WCLV and Interlochen Public Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 2
When Queen and David Bowie met in Switzerland to record their iconic collaboration ‘Under Pressure’ on 26th October, 1981, *quite a lot* of drugs a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 10:06
‘Disco Demolition Night’, the brainchild of 24 year-old shock jock Steve Dahl, caused mass hysteria at Comiskey Park, Chicago on 12th July, 1979 – ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:43
Tune in to the next “Sounds Jewish” for music exploring and celebrating the coming Lag B'Omer holiday.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
On March 6, 1971, a group of some of the top musicians from the United States – Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, The Staples Singers, and more – ...
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish as we party like it's 485 BCE with joyful and satirical Purim songs from around the world.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth, acclaimed musicians discuss and perform his compositions, and Rachmaninoff himsel...
Bought by WGTE Public Media, KRPS, WHQR, WMNR, KENW and more
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 15
This week on Afterglow, we celebrate the early years of the First Lady of Song Ella Fitzgerald, with a close look at her work for Decca Records, wh...
- Added: Feb 20, 2023
- Length: 59:00