Tag: music
member name: WBUR 90.9 FM
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December 20, 2009 02:36 PM EST --
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Call her country, call her rock, Lucinda Williams made her name singing about heartache. Now she's found love. We'll check in with her, and her Grammy-nominated . . .
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November 03, 2009 02:24 PM EST --
We'll talk with superstar Chinese composer Tan Dun about his unique musical fusion of East and West.
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Tan Dun , Academy Award-winning classical music composer and conductor. He’s . . .
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December 06, 2009 08:48 PM EST --
A high-drama detective story behind the Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Eric Siblin , award-winning journalist and filmaker and former pop music critic for The Montreal . . .
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May 27, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
We'll look back on Leonard Bernstein, who took the helm of the New York Philharmonic 50 years ago, and changed American music.
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June 04, 2009 11:24 PM EDT --
We'll talk with classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk, about the guitar as bridge between cultures.
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July 05, 2009 11:36 PM EDT --
Aoife O'Donovan and Gregory Liszt of "Crooked Still" in our studio
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Originally broadcast Aug. 12, 2008
When Crooked Still formed in 2001, it was . . .
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November 26, 2008 12:55 PM EST --
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December 15, 2008 05:36 PM EST --
Hip-hop activist Sister Souljah is back — with a new novel, "Midnight," about love, race, and the gangster life.
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Sister Souljah , hip-hop artist, activist, educator, and . . .
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December 24, 2008 11:00 AM EST --
Count Basie
Originally broadcast: June 6, 2008
William “Count” Basie didn’t really read music. He and his band — rolling out of Kansas City, on their way to the American . . .
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January 29, 2009 05:01 PM EST --
The craze for karaoke. Equalizer or embarrassment? One devotee tells the uninitiated what they're missing.
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Brian Raftery , author of “Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke . . .
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February 04, 2009 05:36 PM EST --
We hear from an underground artist who uses musical mashups to tap into our media-age dreams.
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Joining us from St. Paul is Jon Nelson , pioneering mashup music artist and radio host. . . .
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April 26, 2009 01:12 PM EDT --
Novelist Arthur Phillips on music, muses, mixtapes and his new novel, “The Song Is You.”
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Arthur Phillips is the author of “The Song is You.” His previous novels . . .
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April 30, 2009 05:27 PM EDT --
Icons among us
On the new frontiers of jazz. A new documentary captures jazz now.
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John W. Comerford, executive producer of the 4-part jazz documentary “Icons Among Us.” . . .
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October 15, 2009 10:01 PM EDT --
Hip-hop legend and Wu Tang Clan founder The RZA on life lessons and the "Tao of Wu."
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Rapper-entrepreneur The RZA is best known as a founder, producer, and mastermind behind the hip-hop . . .
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October 27, 2009 03:48 PM EDT --
Our show today about the life and times of Thelonious Monk had us peering into the jazz world to look for the children of the “George Washington of bebop.” Who are . . .
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December 08, 2009 10:00 PM EST --
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“Say Hey (I Love You)” is an Internet sensation, and has shot up the charts. We’ll talk with breakout musician Michael Franti about hip-hop, reggae, . . .
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September 14, 2009 09:48 PM EDT --
Chita Rivera, during an interview in New York, on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. (AP)
We’ll talk with Broadway legend — of “West Side Story,” “Chicago,” and “Bye . . .
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October 26, 2009 06:12 PM EDT --
Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I. on July 5, 1963. (AP Photo)
Thelonius Monk. Jazz giant. American hipster. A new biography takes us into his life . . .
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September 07, 2009 05:00 PM EDT --
Detail from "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game (thebeatlesrockband.com)
“The Beatles: Rock Band” is the video game event of the season. We’ll ask its creator how it changes the . . .
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January 21, 2009 09:48 PM EST --
Aretha Franklin sang on the Capitol steps. Who's next in the world of soul? We'll talk with rising star Alice Smith.
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Alice Smith , singer-songwriter and Grammy nominee. Her . . .
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