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Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early Bluegrass is often viewed as a post WWII idiom reflecting great changes in the US. With that in mind, it makes sense that early bluegrass is ...

  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Hemeroscopium House
This week on The Spanish Hour, 20th-century orchestral works by three generations of Spain's most original composers: Isaac Albéniz, Antón García A...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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A the story and sounds of an instrument made from meteorites.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: José Martínez
Manuel de Falla's 1919 ballet "Three-Cornered Hat," José Luis Greco's 1998 Violin Concerto "Ardor"

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 20:26
  • Purchases: 1
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The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2012
  • Length: 06:23
Caption: Paquito D'Rivera, Credit: Lane Pederson
On this edition of The Spanish Hour, we’ll get a taste of some of Paquito D’Rivera’s evocative classical compositions.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
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For the second week of April (4/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a crooning cowboy who sang both English and Spanish.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Old time fiddling in North America is different wherever you go. In some places in the southwest, old fiddlers play the waltzes and polkas that cam...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan yun
You do something in the present and it has a consequence. Obviously. You cannot tell any kind of story without one event leading to another. Like i...

Bought by KUCB and WAMU


  • Added: May 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
For regular users, piece for April 23-29, 2011. Others use anytime. Piece reflects of the basics of bluegrass rhythm, and tells a little about how ...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Apr 09, 2011
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Claire Nusbaum
Many bluegrass songs depict heavy burdens borne by characters in songs, and by us listeners. That's the subject of this Gem of Bluegrass.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2011
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
To folk music scholars, a style of folk music represents a specific group of people, but also has relationships with surrounding cultures. For a lo...

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM and WAMU


  • Added: Jan 23, 2011
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, piece for Jan 8 - 14, 2011. Others use any time.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:58
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, piece for Jan 25 - 31, otherwise use anytime

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, show for Dec 18 - 24, 2010. For othrs, use any time.

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
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If you’re a young person looking for a job, it looks pretty dismal out there, and it may not brighten up anytime soon. On this edition of How We Su...

Bought by WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova and KZYX


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, program for Nov 13 - 19, 2010. For all others, use anytime.

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, piece for Nov 6 - 12, 2010

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Oct 24, 2010
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, piece for Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2010. For others, use any time

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, piece for Oct 16 - 22, 2010. FOr others, use anytime

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, piece for Oct 2 - 8, 2010

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Sep 11, 2010
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, piece for Dept 25 - Oct 1, 2010

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angelique Kidjo, Credit: Press Photo
A conversation with the joyous and creatively majestic Angelique Kidjo. She talks about finding her true voice. Standard format includes two short ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2010
  • Length: 59:00