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Composers Datebook

American Public Media

Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.

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30 episodes

  1. Schumann and Zaimont 2:00
  2. Varese and Zappa 2:00
  3. Florence Price 2:00
  4. Sondheim in the woods 2:00
  5. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge 2:00
  6. How to pray 2:00
  7. Mozart and 'Amadeus' 2:00
  8. Three Parisian premieres 2:00
  9. Composer skulls 2:00
  10. Heggie's 'Great Scott' 2:00
  11. Handel advertises his wares 2:00
  12. A 'pathetic' symphony by Tchaikovsky 2:00
  13. 'Eating Greens' with Mackey 2:00
  14. Robert Ward panned and prized 2:00
  15. Corigliano's 'Poem in October' 2:00
  16. Cindy McTee's Symphony No. 1 2:00
  17. Schneider's 'Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories' 2:00
  18. Adams at the opera 2:00
  19. Marga Richter's 'Fragments' 2:00
  20. Ancerl and the Czech Philharmonic 2:00
  21. Honegger plays rough 2:00
  22. Premiere of Brahms' 'Schicksalslied' 2:00
  23. Boulez and Jarre 2:00
  24. A domestic postscript from Richard Strauss 2:00
  25. Missa Salisburgensis 2:00
  26. Dvorak's Violin Concerto 2:00
  27. Zwilich celebrates 2:00
  28. Prokofiev's Sixth and Seventh 2:00
  29. The school of Monk 2:00
  30. Vivaldi’s 'Juditha Triumphans' 1:59