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Caption: Stereo-Travel Co. Doyer Street, Chinatown, N.Y.C. New York Chinatown, 1909, Credit: Courtesy Library of Congress
May is Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month and in celebration this episode highlights the community history of Manhattan’s Chinatow...

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
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6 works, including BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046. Ensemble Caprice/Matthias Maute.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon Overture. Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon Overture. Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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4 works, including CHOPIN: Fantasy on Polish Themes (or Airs) in A, Op. 13 (or Airs) . Orch of Age of Enlightenment/Sir Charles Mackerras; Emanuel ...

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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4 works, including HAYDN: Divertimento (Allegro molto) in G, P 8 (Allegro molto) . Slovak Chamber Orchestra/Bohdan Warchal.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including MACKENZIE: Scottish Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 24. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestr/Martyn Brabbins.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including MACKENZIE: Scottish Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 24. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestr/Martyn Brabbins.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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4 works, including HAYDN: Symphony No. 99 in E flat. Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Helmut Müller-Brühl.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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4 works, including HAYDN: Symphony No. 99 in E flat. Cologne Chamber Orchestra/Helmut Müller-Brühl.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including POULENC: oboe Trio, Op. 43; Joseph Lulloff, soprano saxophone.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including POULENC: oboe Trio, Op. 43; Joseph Lulloff, soprano saxophone.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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HOUR ONE: "Being body conscious" - When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? M...

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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6 works, including BRUCH: Kol Nidrei, Op. 47. London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras; Ofra Harnoy, cello.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including BRUCH: Kol Nidrei, Op. 47. London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras; Ofra Harnoy, cello.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including VERDI: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: Overture. Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Pier Giorgio Morandi.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:02
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6 works, including VERDI: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: Overture. Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Pier Giorgio Morandi.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:02
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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: World War II graves at Arlington National Cemetary, Credit: L. Sponsler
An objective, entertaining, and respectful music/sound chronicle of America’s war history starting with the Civil War, which spurred the eventual c...

Bought by KTNA, Wyoming Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCB and more


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:18
  • Purchases: 77
Caption: Tiny Parham & Musicians
It’s not that one brought about the other. Rather, it was a melding of many factors, and during that time, jazz became incredibly popular, as did s...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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6 works, including HASSE: Sinfonia, Op. 5, #6. Concerto Köln (ancnt. instr.)/Pablo Heras-Casado.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
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6 works, including GRIFFES: Poem for Flute & Orchestra (1918) (1918) . Seattle Symphony Orchestra/Gerard Schwarz; Scott Goff, flute.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Take a musical journey through Europe with Jeff Rupert and Jazz and the American Spirit when he shares great jazz centered around the musical theme...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and WCNY


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: :00
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In the late 1970s the Columbia label was home to an array of talented jazz musicians, including Woody Shaw, Arthur Blythe, Dexter Gordon, and Weath...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:04