Tag: NPR
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Monday Link Round Up: May 23, 2016
News to start your week! NPR’s Weekend Edition featured a conversation with Anna Beer and her new book, Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music. (Purchase your copy here!) Read the conversation on the NPR website, or listen below! Last week we shared the sad news of the death of Atlanta Symphony…
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Monday Link Round Up: March 28, 2016
Some news – and great listening – to start your week! NPR had some great stories in recent days – including this feature on the life and music of jazz pianist and composer Marian McPartland. Listen below: NPR also introduced listeners to Camerata Romeu – Cuba’s all female orchestra. Read the transcript here, or…
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Olivia Block on NPR
NPR’s Morning Edition shared the work of Chicago based composer Olivia Block as part of the series, “Musicians in their own Words.” In a story that ran on January 7th, Block walked listeners through the soundscape of downtown Chicago and shared how she discovers and records sounds in her day to day life to incorporate in her electroacoustic compositions. Listen…
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Discussion on NPR
In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, NPR music commentator Miles Hoffman did a report on musical families for Morning Edition. The light piece, lasting about seven minutes, discussed the work of a few of the best known (or “most likely to be known”) women that were connected to the now seemingly legendary men. Among the…