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Women Making Music: Suzanne Vega
Series: Women Making Music
From: WXPN
Length: 00:02:43
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Piece Description
WXPN is celebrating women's history month with a series of first person features called Women Making Music. In these 2-3 minute vignettes artists from a variety of genres muse about their lives and their craft. This segment features veteran singer-songwriter and folkie Suzanne Vega. It is running locally on WXPN-FM in Philadelphia and nationally on "World Cafe", March 12 and March 14. These series only need short anchor intros which the producer can provide.
Musical Works
Tom's Diner, Suzanne Vega,
Small Blue Thing, Suzanne Vega,
Penitent, Suzanne Vega
All excerpts from "Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega" A&M Records; 2003
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Rekha Murthy
Posted on March 05, 2005 at 08:25 AM | Permalink
Review of Women Making Music: Suzanne Vega
This is a generally good piece that manages to give a broad sample of Suzanne Vega's music in under 3 minutes. The interview and music selections are very interesting and illuminating - it's great to hear from someone who was part of my adolescent/college soundtrack. My preference would be to not try to cover so much thematic territory in such a short span of time; rather, to go deeper in one or two areas.