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Exclusive Interviews

bullet SERGEI PROKOFIEV - BAD BOY OF THE KEYBOARD
An Interview with Recording Artist Barbara Nissman
bulletMax Morath (ragtime entertainer and music historian)
(Part 1) - (Part 2)
bullet Steve Reich (groundbreaking minimalist composer)
bullet William Bolcom (preeminent American composer)
bullet Ray Lynch (Deep Breakfast;  Billboard Instrumental Album of 1990)
bullet American Roots at Smithsonian Folkways (Grammy winner Jeff Place)
bullet Smithsonian Ethnomusicologist Atesh Sonneborn
bulletMusical Treasures at the Library of Congress
(Part 1) - (Part 2)
bullet  Celtic Harp Builder Timothy Habinski
bullet Simon Hewitt Jones (concert violinist)
bullet Lorrie Goulet (first-tier American sculptor)
bullet Vytear (US laptop music champion)
bullet Veteran DJ Al Santos on the Business of Radio
bullet Chris Brewer (music in education pioneer)
bullet Al Petteway (recording artist on 'Mark Twain' soundtrack)
bullet 'In the Spotlight' (recording artists on their Adventures in Music)

Adventures in Music

bulletAdventures in Film Series - (Franco Zeffirelli) (Bobby Darin) (The Pianist) (La Vie en Rose - Edith Piaf) (Forbidden Planet)
bullet Flamenco!
bullet Cowboy Songs
bullet Celtic Harp
bulletMusical Treasures at the Library of Congress
(Part 1) - (Part 2)
bullet Music in Education
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Discoveries

bullet Habib Koité's Afriki
bullet Vienna Teng Dreaming Through the Noise
bullet Osvaldo Golijov's 'Ainadamar' (flamenco goes to the opera)
bullet Bela Fleck (Grammy Award-winning jazz banjo)
bullet Nando Lauria's 'Novo Brasil' (jazz harmonies and complex rhythms)
bullet Zucchero & Co. (Italian bluesman teams with Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and other greats)
bullet Libera (New Age boys' choir)
bullet Yo-Yo Ma's 'Obrigado Brazil' (fine example of Brazilian pop and classical)
bullet Ken Burns' 'Mark Twain' Soundtrack (early American popular music)
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Music Makers

bulletGabriel Fauré (Part 1) - (Part 2) - (Part 3) - (Part 4)
bullet Stéphane Grappelli (Part 1) - (Part 2) - (Part 3)
bullet Jascha Heifetz (Part 1) - (Part 2) - (Part 3)
bullet Alan Hovhaness
bullet Yo-Yo Ma
bullet Pat Metheny (Part 1) - (Part 2)
bullet Ignacy Paderewski
bullet Sergei Prokofiev
bullet Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Composer Roundtable

bullet No. 7 - May 2007
with David Arbury and Asha Srinivasan

blending old and new, electronic music, ambient, randomness, Indian music, special effects, silences, end of common practice
bullet No. 6 - June 2006
with Masatoshi Mitsumoto, David Rubenstein

tone rows, serial music, quotation and derivation, rhythm as unifying element, narration, combining themes, thematic (motivic) development, arpeggiator, unity and contrast
bullet No. 5 - May 2005
with Brian Wilbur Grundstrom, Gregg Martin

extended tonality, keeping tonality interesting, serialism, losing/hooking the audience, Spanish dance forms, octatonic scale, following your ear
bullet No. 4 - August 2004
with Sue O'Neill Johnson, Igal Myrtenbaum

Latin music, direct and abstracted use of folk elements, avant-garde melody generation, form, creativity
bullet No. 3 - January 2004
with Sue O'Neill Johnson, Ken Rubin
inspiration, texts, minimalism, tone color, dissonance, key scheme, melodic line, jazz harmony
bullet No. 2 - June 2003
with Ron Dicus, Paras Kaul (the "Brainwave Chick")
brainwave music, unity and contrast, beauty and aesthetics, rhythm
bullet No. 1 - March 2003
with Rich Christner, Jon Matis, David Rubenstein

music as a social process, Jewish roots
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The Music Biz

bullet Veteran DJ Al Santos on the Business of Radio
bullet Satellite Radio
bullet Turmoil in the Music Industry (Part 1) - (Part 2)
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Adventures in Creativity

bullet Lorrie Goulet (contemporary American sculptor)
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Don't Forget to Laugh

bullet Woody Allen
bullet Robert Benchley
bullet Johnny Carson
bullet W.C.Fields
bullet Whoopi Goldberg
bullet David Letterman
bullet Groucho Marx
bullet Dorothy Parker
bullet Chris Rock
bullet Will Rogers
bullet Jon Stewart
bullet Lily Tomlin
bullet Mark Twain
bullet Mae West
bullet Robin Williams
bullet Chris Wright (moi)
bullet Steven Wright (no relation)
bullet Laughs from Real Life
    Part 1 - Doctors and Patients

    Part 2 - Travel Agents
    Part 3 - Church Bulletins
    Part 4 - Sports Figures
bullet Lightbulb Jokes
bullet Malapropisms
    Part 1 - Origins, Shakespeare
    Part 2 - Politicians
    Part 3 - former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry
   
Part 4 - movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn
   
Part 5 - Archie Bunker and assorted others
    Part 6 - Yogi Berra (the all-time champ!)
bullet On Getting Older
bulletPresidential Humor - (Part 1) - (Part 2)

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