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9:26

Robert Gupta

Music is medicine, music is sanity

Posted Mar 2010

8:45

Tim Exile

An instrument anyone can play

Posted Feb 2018

9:12

Joan As Police Woman

"Your Song" / "Real Life"

Posted Dec 2021

3:17

Kimberose

"Back on My Feet"

Posted Nov 2021

4:15

David Pogue

The music wars

Posted Jan 2008

16:50

Mark Ronson

How sampling transformed music

Posted May 2014

16:27

Robert Gupta

Between music and medicine

Posted Oct 2012

8:10

Tim Exile

Finding music in mundanity

Posted Jan 2018

5:16

Tim Hansen

How to read music

Posted Jul 2013

16:40

Jorge Drexler

Poetry, music and identity

Posted May 2017

15:06

Findlay Napier and Gillian Frame

"Jamie Raeburn" / "Baloo Baleerie" / "Twa recruitin Sergeants"

Posted Jan 2020

4:40

John Bidden

"Not About Me"

Posted Sep 2018

10:21

Flor de Toloache

"Ruiseñor" / "No Hay Vuelta Atrás"

Posted May 2019

8:27

Jenny Scheinman with Nels Cline and Todd Sickafoose

"A Ride With Polly Jean" / "Ali Farka Touche"

Posted Jan 2022

9:34

Rufus Wainwright

"Peaceful Afternoon" / "Going To A Town"

Posted Jul 2020

4:54

Min Kym

"Meditation from Thais"

Posted Jan 2020

6:58

Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason

"The Muse" / "Spring Song"

Posted Sep 2020

16:50

Mark Applebaum

The mad scientist of music

Posted Aug 2012

20:13

Michael Tilson Thomas

Music and emotion through time

Posted May 2012

5:36

Rowan Fitzpatrick and Heart of Mind

Facing the future together

Posted Feb 2018

8:33

Lucius

"White Lies" / "Turn It Around"

Posted Aug 2020

7:05

Emily King

"Distance" / "Sides"

Posted Sep 2020

8:53

The Bloom Twins

"Wrong" / "Small Town Weirdos"

Posted Oct 2019

3:12

Sierra Hull

"Beautifully Out of Place"

Posted Jun 2020

9:23

Gina Chavez

"The Woman in the Arena"

Posted Aug 2022

18:16

Björn Ulvaeus

How music streaming transformed songwriting

Posted Jul 2021

5:13

Renzo Vitale

"Drottning Kristina"

Posted Jan 2019

8:02

Lisa-Marie Johnston

"Home to Oakland" and "Walk Away"

Posted Feb 2018

3:49

Mike Sempert

"Good Morning Young Artist" and "Ms. Metronome"

Posted Feb 2018

8:32

Johnny Staats, Davey Vaughn

A tribute to West Virginia coal miners

Posted Nov 2015

7:48

MaJiKer

Who says you can't play the piano with your foot?

Posted Jul 2016

15:49

Geminelle

"Everything I Need" / "Find Your Tribe" / "I Am Free"

Posted Mar 2022

3:47

Simona Abdallah

Beats that break barriers

Posted May 2019

16:58

José Antonio Abreu

The El Sistema music revolution

Posted Feb 2009

10:09

Sō Percussion

"Music for Wood and Strings"

Posted Mar 2017

17:34

Anita Collins

The benefits of music education

Posted Aug 2019