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“I think of a lot of things when I’m playing the piano and one of the
last things I think about is the piano…you try to somehow think and feel
li...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 11:02
Today on Art Beat we have the opportunity to visit with the filmmaker who was the subject of his own documentary. Philip Lawerence was on the medic...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 38:28
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 16:32
"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play
Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started
c...
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- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 07:39
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"I want to have clarity of ideas and I want to be able to execute ideas. So if I'm going to play something really sloppy, I want it to be sloppy on...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 18:32
A woman finds refuge at a shelter for big cats; It's tough being a very tall person in a very small world; A chance encounter proves serendipitous ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 22:21
Preston Bus Station is considered one of the finest examples of British "Brutalist" architecture. Built in 1969 at the time of its construction it ...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 15:00
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
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- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
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Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.
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- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 06:24
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Education both successful and failed, the sound of education and a taste of Beauty Salon Live!
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 30:01
Corn Mo has had an amazing career as a performer but still continues to fly under the radar.
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- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:59
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We sat down with Guy in his Nashville studio to talk about songwriting and creativity
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- Added: Jan 21, 2013
- Length: 59:00
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, EDDIE PALMIERI. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about...
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 02:57
Steve Downing reflects on the highly positive nature of the existence and effects of Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 04:29
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Cathy Byrd speaks with Austin-based Jack Sanders about slow architecture and his Design Build Adventure projects.
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 15:47
Cathy Byrd drives to Lubbock, Texas, to meet with professor Chris Taylor and architecture students who participated in Land Arts of the American We...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 10:37
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In th...
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 03:29
Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Arrangement In Gray and Black." The Beat is a daily reminder that...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 01:48
When dementia sets in, it’s often thought that all is lost. But staff at the Studio Museum in Harlem doesn’t think so. It has a program to provide ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2012
- Length: 05:19
Here is the uncut recording of Bill O'Neill's poetry reading at Collected Works earlier this year. This track accompanies this week's show -- The S...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 23:18
I talk to legislator/poet Bill O'Neill -- nicknamed the Sagebrush Lizard by republicans at the Roundhouse
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Nicholas Herrera is a contemporary artist whose art builds on and expands the traditional art of the Northern New Mexico Santero. I visited with hi...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 28:11
Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 02:00
In this second of a two-part series highlighting the winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards to be held in Cleveland on Sept. 13th, producer...
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 58:04
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
