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Soundcheck wraps up its portion of WNYC's fund drive week with some rollicking New Orleans party music. The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is a funk and street beat brass band, playing ... (episode)
During their 17-year career, the vocal ensemble Anonymous Four have traveled stylistically between music from medieval sources to the thorniest contemporary fare, applying their consi... (episode)
Ever wonder how NPR selects the music played between news stories? Today we speak with Bob Boilen, the director of NPR's evening news program All Things Considered and creator of All ... (episode)
Though steeped in a fairly conservative tradition of Eastern European music making, Klezmer has proven to be a highly inclusive and innovative musical style. This week, it crosses ano... (episode)
We're joined today by Alan Light, music journalist and editor-in-chief of Tracks magazine. Tracks is a new rock magazine that aims to attract a more culturally sophisticated, over-30 ... (episode)
Think of Spanish classical music and the name Manuel de Falla naturally comes to mind. Yet only a handful of his works are heard in concert halls today, among them, "Iberia" and "El A... (episode)
"Crossing the BLVD" by documentary artists Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan is a cross-media project that documents and portrays the largely invisible lives, images, sounds and stories ... (episode)
African-Americans have long played a rich and varied role in American theater. But many black theater artists continue to face steep obstacles, particularly on Broadway, where both pr... (episode)
Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay joins us on the heels of her precocious debut CD, "Get Away From Me." The disc spans a wide terrain, from jazz and bossa nova to reggae and hip-hop, all... (episode)
When Garrick Ohlsson came to the forefront in the 1970s he was one of a handful of major Americans pianists arriving on the scene, along with Peter Serkin, Murray Perahia, and Emanuel... (episode)