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Tired of the usual pundits? This program provides a unique
"take" on The State of the Union events--the seating, the speech by the President and th...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 49:38
For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Awadagin Pratt talks about the benefits of enjoying a long term relationship with classical music. Use this...
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WUIS, Iowa Public Radio, WMUK, Wyoming Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 8
For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Awadagin Pratt relates how classical music is, and has always been, a constant presence in our lives. Use t...
Bought by WUIS, Iowa Public Radio, WMUK, Wyoming Public Radio, WGUC and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :35
- Purchases: 7
For your Fundraising campaign, conductor Hugh Wolff talks about his classical responsibility to get the music right. Use this 22 second clip as a ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :22
For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...
Bought by WUIS and Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 2
For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Garrick Ohlsson talks about what classical music offers us, and how he enjoys the responsibility of bringing...
Bought by WSKG, WUIS, Iowa Public Radio, WMUK, WGUC and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 19
NYC’s best lounge band performing the New American Songbook
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 16:13
Syrian vocalist working at the intersection of Arab, Jazz and Improvised Music.
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 17:54
Alex Meixner: Acclaimed accordionist playing jazz, Bulgarian dance music, Cleveland-style polkas and more.
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 19:49
Riccardo Muti is the new (named May 2008) Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Previously he led the Philadelphia Orchestra and (the)...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :31
Knowing the story or its inspiration is one way to get inside the music, but conductor Riccardo Muti says there's a more basic approach. Use this ...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
When violinist Hilary Hahn recorded the Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1, she went against a long standing tradition with the concerto. Most violini...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :28
Conductor Marin Alsop has recorded most of Brahms' orchestral works during the last few years. Although Brahms' symphonies are epic in both sound ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :19
Pianist Murray Perahia devoted a number of years to only studying and playing Bach. It was a time of great learning and healing in his life as be ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :27
Performing music is probably one of the only professions where the longer you play, the better you get - the harder it gets. It's a phenomenon tha...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :18
If there were a "supporting musician" category in Mozart's Piano Concertos, it would probably be the wind section, especially the clarinets. When ...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :15
- Purchases: 1
It's the bane of all musicians whether they play professionally or took lessons as a kid. Practicing, especially those endless and unrewarding sca...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :21
You don't need to be Russian to play Rachmaninoff, although some well-meaning Russians have been known to make that nationalistic claim. Still, pi...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jul 30, 2007
- Length: :32
- Purchases: 1
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 is very well known, primarily because of its Second Movement. Besides the concert hall and CD, you're also likely to...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 2
Carlos Salzedo was an innovative man of the harp. He performed, he taught, he built instruments and composed. As a composer, Yolanda Kondonassis ...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :31
- Purchases: 1
Two of the most frequently used key strokes on the computer are "copy" and "paste." It probably saves us hours of time each week. Pianist Maurizi...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 2
Mozart originally conceived many of his Piano Concertos as works he would both play and conduct. Occasionally, pianist Maurizio Pollini performs t...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: :33
- Purchases: 2
Before Pope John Paul II, Poland's most celebrated national hero was Frederic Chopin. His music was a source of inspiration and comfort for a coun...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jun 25, 2007
- Length: :27
- Purchases: 1
There is ample evidence that composer Aaron Copland wanted his music performed straight, as is, with little added emotion or nuance by the performe...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jun 20, 2007
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
Aaron Copland is called the "Father of American classical music" for his ability to set American landscapes and the American spirit to music. Befo...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jun 20, 2007
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
