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Ayana Archie

Scientists at the University of Tokyo found that rats possess the ability to keep the beat to musical pieces from Mozart.


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Rats have rhythm and can keep the beat to Mozart, a new study shows

Lynne has been at this radio thing since 1984 when she fell into an historic job at KFAC AM and FM, the commercial classical station in Los Angeles.  She was the first woman staff announcer in the station's history, and it was such big news back then, it made the LA newspapers and national radio publications.  She is thrilled women in radio is no longer newsworthy.


Lynne Warfel

This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with host Lynne Warfel, features music from sports films like ‘Rudy,’ ‘Seabiscuit’ and ‘Rocky.’ Listen now!


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Saturday Cinema

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Song leader, composer, scholar and social activist Bernice Johnson Reagon understands firsthand the power and function music has to unite people. Her life through music exemplifies that notion. Find out more in the latest episode of the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.


An ecstatic exploration of classical music that’s aesthetically and uncompromisingly Black.

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Amazing Grace

VocalEssence with Sweet Honey In The Rock - Ella's Song

"Give Your Hands to Struggle" by Sweet Honey in the Rock

Rhapsody in Black - Bernice Johnson Reagon

Rhapsody in Black

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Bernice Johnson Reagon sings to unite us all

Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wis. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and also produces New Classical Tracks, a weekly podcast critiquing a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays and 5:15 p.m. Fridays.


Julie Amacher

In this week’s New Classical Tracks, violinist Rachel Barton Pine celebrates the 25th anniversary of her pioneering recording celebrating Black composers, ‘Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.’ 


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New Classical Tracks - Rachel Barton Pine

Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 5 No. 2: I. Allegro moderato

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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine rereleases a celebration of Black composers 

Steve Seel is the host of YourClassical’s weekly SymphonyCast and the trailblazing music show Extra Eclectic. He possesses a broad knowledge of many musical genres, having hosted radio programs ranging from classical to jazz and even avant-garde music at radio stations around the country. Steve began his love affair with public radio at 24 working whatever shifts he could at his hometown station of WUSF-FM in Tampa, Florida, and from there worked his way to snowy Buffalo, New York, and its renowned classical station WNED-FM, where he hosted middays and the weekly experimental-music show Present Tense.  In 2005, Steve became one of the founding voices on Minnesota Public Radio's eclectic station, the Current. While there, he hosted afternoons and mornings, and conducted in-depth interviews with pop music luminaries ranging from Brian Eno to David Byrne to Tori Amos. Steve is a basement composer obsessed with all things both minimalist and slow, and might actually be incapable of writing anything that exceeds 75 beats-per-minute.


Steve Seel

As the nights grow longer and cooler, Extra Eclectic host Steve Seel takes the opportunity to sample from the wealth of modern classical works that perfectly complement the mood of an autumnal evening. 


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Extra Eclectic

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A variety of modern classical music for a fall night 

In this half-hour interview, Extra Eclectic host Steve Seel sits down with Minnesota guitarist and composer Steve Tibbetts, who doesn't make “classical music” by any stretch of the imagination — nor is it jazz or rock. Seel talks with him on the occasion of the release of ‘Hellbound Train,’ a new two-disc showcase of what Tibbetts describes as his style of ‘post-modern neo-primitivism.’


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Extra Eclectic - Steve Tibbets Interview

Jonette Novak

Steve Tibbetts' unclassifiable music knows no boundaries

Extra Eclectic host Steve Seel speaks with composer Missy Mazzoli ahead of Journey North Opera Company's staging of the Minnesota premiere of ‘Proving Up,’ taking place Nov. 11-13 at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis. 


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Extra Eclectic - Missy Mazzoli Interview

Marylene Mey

Missy Mazzoli's opera 'Proving Up' is a haunting commentary on the American dream

This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with host Lynne Warfel, honors all those who served with two hours of film music from ‘Bridge on the River Kwai,’ ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ ‘Victory at Sea’ and more. Listen now!


A tribute to all who served with music from great films.

Veterans' Day Salute

Veterans Day Salute

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Scott Simon

Scott Simon talks to Robert Friedman about his piano. It was once owned by Thomas Edison and has bite marks that are likely the inventor's. 


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Robert Friedman owns Thomas Edison's piano. What do the bite marks mean?

Composer Joel Thompson continues the history of challenging society with his music, like so many artists that came before him. Find out more in the latest episode of the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.


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