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Public Radio Music Month: Air Conducting Promo No. 2
Posted on · Only a few days left to enter or vote in Classical 91.7's first-ever Air Conducting Contest!
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Public Radio Music Month, Promo 3: Writer’s Block
Posted on · During Public Radio Music Month, we're releasing a series of videos we made just for the occasion. We hope these videos will put you in the mood to celebrate classical music and public radio with us! In this video, we help an attractive student overcome her writer's block.
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Public Radio Music Month Promo 2: Angry Driver
Posted on · During Public Radio Music Month, we're releasing a series of videos we made just for the occasion. We hope these videos will put you in the mood to celebrate classical music and public radio with us! In this video we ask the question: Is classical music the cure for road rage? We're pretty sure it is.
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Metalachi
Posted on · You know, some things just naturally go together – like peanut butter and jelly, or Houston and traffic, but some things are harder to imagine being combined. Take heavy metal and mariachi bands. It just can't work. Can it?
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Public Radio Music Month Video Promo 1, starring Amy Bishop
Posted on · During Public Radio Music Month, we'll be releasing a series of videos we made just for the occasion. We hope these videos will put you in the mood to celebrate classical music and public radio with us! In our first video, find out what makes announcer Amy Bishop boogie.
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Meta Radio, Episode 6: Announcer Chris Johnson
Posted on · Meta Radio is a completely unofficial, unauthorized look inside of Classical 91.7. Get to know the people who work at your classical radio station! In our sixth episode, we meet Classical 91.7 announcer and producer, Chris Johnson. In this episode, look out for signs from God, pizza, swing dancing, and Weezer.
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The Practice Room: a new online series
Posted on · The Practice Room is Classical 91.7's new online series that takes you into the hidden world of college music students. In this episode, we follow clarinet major Alex Doyle on her journey to Clarinetfest. Why do woodwind players hate flying? Will Alex make the finals?? If you don't like to explore new worlds - if you don't like adventure - turn back now!
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Les Noces
Posted on · This podcast features Igor Stravinsky's wildly inventive work, Les Noces. Ritualistic and insistently rhythmic, Les Noces depicts a Russian peasant wedding and is scored for four pianos, chorus and percussion. It was performed as part of Da Camera's Exiles in Paris festival in March 2008. The performers were Houston Chamber Choir and So Percussion; pianists Alan Feinberg, Timothy Hester, Pedja Muzijevic and Sarah Rothenberg; and percussionists Richard Brown, Craig Hauschildt and Matthew Strauss. Renowned Dutch conductor Reinbert de Leeuw made his Da Camera debut. A link to texts and translations can be found on the Da Camera and KUHF web sites. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts
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Ben Allison Band
Posted on · This podcast features excerpts from the February 2010 jazz concert by the Ben Allison Band: Ben Allison, bass; Shane Endsley, trumpet; Jenny Scheinman, violin; Steve Cardenas, guitar and Rudy Royston, drums. This set features songs from Ben Allison's CD Think Free, including Fred, Broke, Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Godzilla, Platypus and Green Al. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts
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Spirit of England
Posted on · This podcast features excerpts from the February 2010 concert The Spirit of England. Tenor Andrew Kennedy, violinists Kyung-Sun Lee and Laurie Smukler, violist Wayne Brooks and cellist Brinton Averil Smith perform Ralph Vaughan Williams song cycle On Wenlock Edge. The string players are joined by pianist Orion Weiss for Elgar's Quintet for Piano and Strings in A Minor, Opus 84. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts
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Seymour Lipkin
Posted on · This podcast features pianist Seymour Lipkin performing Beethoven's Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat, Op. 106. Widely considered Beethoven's single most difficult composition for the piano, the so-called "Hammerklavier" sonata remains one of the most challenging solo works in the entire piano repertoire.
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SXSW: Balmorhea and Hauschka
Posted on · KUHF's Meghan Hendley reports back from SXSW with interviews from Volker Bertelman (also known as Hauschka), and the Austin-based group Balmorhea.
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SXSW Music Festival: Show Reviews
Posted on · SXSW brought two performances from Lone Star State string ensembles early this week.
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SXSW Music Festival: Day 1
Posted on · Every year, SXSW features over 1,200 performances at 80 different venues featuring musical acts from all over the world.
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Italian Romantics
Posted on · This podcast features excerpts from two October 2009 Da Camera concerts: a recital by guitarist Eliot Fisk and harpsichordist John Gibbons and Italian Romantics, featuring Fisk and the Enso String Quartet. > more detailed information on this piece. > view all Da Camera/KUHF podcasts