WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Tinpan Alley By Susan Kelen Broadcast: Sunday, October 10, 2004 Now, the VOA Special English Program Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the expression, tinpan alle

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THIS IS AMERICA - Itzhak Perlman: A Citizen of the World, With His Violin as a Passport STEVE EMBER: Many consider him the greatest concert violinist in the world. The music of Itzhak Perlman is our program today on the VOA Special English program TH

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AS IT IS 2014-01-27 Nigerias Ruling Party Faces Challenges in 2014 2014年尼日利亚执政党面临着挑战 Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we report on a new ope

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Many consider him the greatest concert violinist in the world. The music of Itzhak Perlman is our program today on the VOA Special English program THIS IS AMERICA. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC: Giovanni Viotti Violin Concerto No. 22 in A Minor)Itzhak Perlm

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Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We tell about a special exhibit of Amish quilts in Washington D.C., And answer a listener question from Russia about musician Scott Joplin. (MUSIC) Amish Quilt E

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By Doug Levine Washington 24 April 2007 Jazz piano meets the banjo on a new recording by two of today's most-respected musicians, pianist Chick Corea and banjoist Bela Fleck. VOA's Doug Levine tells us about this unlikely musical pairing and their en

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Youve Heard of The Birth of the Blues Heres one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, youd probably think of Vienna, Austria. Closer to our home, if we said Dixieland, New Orleans, Louisiana, would likely rush to mind. Country music? Nas

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Christmas Concert Hits Jazzy Note It's the holiday season in the United States and choirs across the country are staging special Christmas concerts. Typically, the singers are accompanied by pianos, organs and, sometimes, even a full orchestra. But a

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Scott Joplin played the piano at clubs and bars throughout Sedalia. He wrote 44 original rags that put an emphasis on the off-beats within scores. He also wrote a complete ragtime opera. Here's one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, y

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This girl did not have to anything but watch the piano roll turn on her player piano at her home in New Jersey in 1940. Not long ago, the daily newspaper in Buffalo, New York, ran a story under the headline, The Day the Music Died. Not all music, but

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JazzAgeMusicRocksBigAppleClub It's been nearly a century since the big band music of the Jazz Age was in full swing, but a nighttime visit to a nightclub in the Big Apple might have you fooled. On a recent Monday night at Sofias, a small nightclub in

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Nigerian-American Turns Story of Harriet Tubman into Opera A new opera, written by a second-generation Nigerian-American, tells the story of Harriet Tubman, who, a century-and-a-half ago, escaped from slavery and led others to freedom. When Nkeiru Ok

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now we're going to remember a man who set a standard for movie trailers and commercials. His name was Alan Bleviss. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ALAN BLEVISS: Sex, Lies And Videotape. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) A. BLEVI

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Preservation - An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music When the flood waters receded following Hurricane Katrina's direct hit on New Orleans, jazz fans around the world breathed a sigh of relief to hear that Preservation

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Topics: Famous Americans: Scott Joplin; American Cities: Memphis; picture versus image versus photo; a versus an Words: composer ragtime talent to be well-received largely posthumous lumber mule these days cargo to be associated with barbecue picture

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