This is terrific.

For radio professionals and lifelong radio learners, this is a template for the first-person vignette, audio postcard and radio story telling.

For your listeners, it’s a way in to meet Joshua Nelson, an African-American Jew (aka “The Prince of Kosher Gospel”), who brings additional soul to Jewish soul music.

Covers all of the musical and theological bases – like, how do you merge the gospel, or gospel music, with Jewish liturgical songs.

It would be a sin to only air this piece during Black History Month, Jewish History Month etc.

Highly recommended.

This is a recently produced bio of a music-maker and history-maker featuring rare performances by pianist Earl Wild. (He died January 23, 2010.)

Although pianist Earl Wild is rarely placed at the top of the list of keyboard giants from this or recent generations, he does own a place in music history and American history. (He played for six presidents and played the National Anthem at Eleanor Roosevelt’s frequent speaking events.)

WOSU Host Boyce Lancaster profiles Earl Wild's historic place and brand of musicianship in performances from a 2005 recital. This mostly music bio also includes Wild’s thoughts and reflections on his musical development and career path, including his fun, virtuosic but artful, piano transcriptions.

Technically, the performances (Beethoven, Albinoni, Chopin and Liszt) are, at times, uneven. But the Wild stamp, musical understanding and personality are all there.

Earl Wild was a serious musician who never pushed himself on the classical music world. But when that world called on him, he knew what and how to deliver.

Suitable for all stations with a classical music component – ideal for afternoons, evenings and all weekend long.

"The reason the band stayed together is because everybody's different."

This is more of a documentary on the Chieftains and the ups, downs and historic development of Irish Music, than a St. Patrick's Day party.

Still, it's musically festive and fun, and the stories behind those ups and downs are interesting - making this a viable option for news stations with doc slots, and for any station with a world music or AAA component.

Many, many musical highlights, but Sting and the Chieftains singing the traditional Irish tune "Mo Ghile Mear" should set your table nicely, if not divinely. Ditto...Allison Krauss and "Molly Bán."

The program was originally produced in 2006, so there are a few outdated time references that are of minimal distraction.

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One of Classical Music's more genuine, uplifting and intriguing love stories: Robert Schumann, his wife Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

While the actual degree of consummation in the Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms part of the love triangle cannot told with certainty, the love, admiration and inspiration coursing between all three is undeniable. This retelling of a threesome of musical love is based on letters and each of their other writings and journals.

The words, their presentation by members of the LA Theatre Works – interspersed with musical performance, are quite lovely, and will likely delight and engage your listeners.

Where and when to place this on your classical music format or news station?

With proper and frequent promotion, you can make it into a special event in the evening or on the weekend. With editing of internal features, you could air it over two successive days.

If your station has a regular documentary slot, this production will be right at home – and may serve as a bright contrast and change of pace to the other docs you regularly present.

The program's (optional) cutaways and features go on a bit too long to my taste, and are on the verge of taking us away from the story. I appreciate and admire the LATW's efforts and dedication to fill the standard radio hour with integrity; this is always a challenge.

I recommend you give the interview, feature and other interstitial materials a careful listen as you audition this program for broadcast.

This, and other productions by LA Theatre Works, reminded me there's still a time and place for radio drama on the radio when the subject, performance and imagination each rise to the heights heard here.