PRX - Pieces for Tone: Polished
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For the third week of December (12/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who helped rewrite some of the country’...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of August (8/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a little known musician who played a big role in re...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of August (8/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who blended conjunto and country to become ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of March (3/6): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a poor farm boy who became a king.
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of April (4/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the oldest and most distinctive musical tradi...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of October (10/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who grew up as a sharecropper but went ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:50
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
Most Civil War scholarship focuses on generals and their armies. But historians at a recent conference explored how water, heat, and horses affecte...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 02:31
A look at changes in art policy during the Kennedy Administration, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 6
This week on The Score with Edmund Stone The Film Music of Georges Auric.
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 08, 2005
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 2
Jules Leotard is the eponym of the costume worn by dancers, gymnasts and acrobats.
- Added: Jul 19, 2005
- Length: 02:02
"Dressed to the nines," like so many English idioms, is a mysterious expression.
- Added: Jul 19, 2005
- Length: 02:02
The genesis of the phrase "rule of thumb" is uncertain.
- Added: Apr 15, 2005
- Length: 02:03
The story behind the coinage of the common expression "good Samaritan."
- Added: Apr 15, 2005
- Length: 02:03
A discussion of the etmology of the word epitaph.
- Added: Apr 15, 2005
- Length: 02:02
- Added: Apr 15, 2005
- Length: 02:03
A discussion of the origin of the expression "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
- Added: Apr 15, 2005
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 2
Why basic black remains basic in fashion despite yearly marketing assaults.
- Added: Aug 31, 2004
- Length: 06:19
