Murray Street Productions and Marketing

For more than 25 years, Murray Street has built a reputation for innovation – in radio, audio, digital media production, marketing and distribution. We specialize in work with cultural institutions.

Program News:

In association with Murray Street, Radio Netherlands Worldwide is proud to present European Jazz Stage with Daniel Frankl. This 2009 season features 13 new episodes with artists as varied as they are talented grace the great jazz stages of Europe, including Bobby McFerrin, Maria Schneider and The Dutch Jazz Orchestra. Join us in this sizzling summer season of European Jazz Stage.

Independent Minds delves into the lives of truly unique, independent personalities--from Winston Churchill to Peter Sellers to the women of Grey Gardens. Host David D'Arcy fully explores these characters and their lasting influence in these one-hour documentaries.

Through exclusive interviews from journalists, experts and personal acquaintances, Independent Minds reveals the story behind these public personas. By the end of the hour, you will come to an independent understanding of these complex characters.

Compelling stories by inspiring playwrights set the stage for headline actors in the national launch of L.A. Theatre Works. L.A. Theatre Works already works for KPCC, WBEZ, WGBH, KUOW, and KUT. Bring drama, humor and entertainment to your listeners every week.

Click here to learn more about the April 2009 launch and learn how L.A. Theatre Works can work for you!

12 distinguished panelists including: Christiane Amanpour, Bob Schieffer and former President Bush policy adviser Michael Gerson, confront the contexts and consequences of contemporary propaganda.

Presented by WNYC's Amy Eddings and moderated by NYU / Harvard professor Arthur Miller, a panel of experts considers propaganda in the context of a hypothetical struggle between "Midrainia" and "Southland." Positions that seem clear in the abstract quickly become shaded by the realities of lives in the balance.

New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine highlight the music of the Winter Consort, Eugene Friesen, Paul Sullivan and Brazilian percussionist Café with singer/guitarist Renato Braz and "Icarus" double-reed man Paul McCandless. This year's celebration debuts Apache singer John-Carlos Perea and musical performances from the 2008 Grammy®-winning CD Crestone. Learn more and join us as we celebrate the return of light!

We've captured over 50 hours of performances -- from the modern minstrel Sufjan Stevens to the Broadway anthems of Stephen Sondheim, to daylong celebrations of J.S. Bach, to jazz pianist Patricia Barber and the post modern blues of Bill Frisell, Petra Haden and Kelly Jo Phelps. Working with Associate Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky we've heightened these recordings with intimate interviews and program notes. These performances are available directly to listeners at symphonyspace.org/live and to radio stations at prx.org.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio

Join Wynton Marsalis at the House of Swing for the sixteenth season of Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio! This winter, our finely-tuned program features a celebration of stringed instruments. Guitarists, pianists, harpists and bassists; plucked, bowed or hammered – we’re serving up jazz strings in every style.

Start the New Year afresh with

Ahmad Jamal as he brings his delicate sensibility to the Rose Theater. Guitarists Russell Malone, Bobby Broom and Frank Vignola honor their forebears in Celebration of the Jazz Guitar: Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian.

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UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS

New Faces, New Strings: Lionel Loueke and Richard Bona

The sound of the kora, kalimba and balafon of the griot storytellers float through the air as guitarist Lionel Loueke and bassist Richard Bona translate the sonorities of West Africa. (January 22)

Pulse of the Planet

Jim Metzner's award-winning Pulse of the Planet is now in its 18th year, but even after 4,000 episodes the two minute daily series remains fresh with new material from the deepest oceans out to the depths of space and everything in-between. Producers of Pulse of the Planet are training scientists in many fields to record their own audio diaries and keep detailed blogs. Science Diaries takes listeners up-close to the pounding Pulse of the Planet!

Preview this month's programs here.

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Independent Minds: John Adams

The second president of the United States and a man whose neo-Puritanical suspicion of human nature heavily influenced the founding of the new American democracy; John Adams and his legacy nevertheless remain underappreciated.

In the newest edition of Independent Minds, David D'Arcy explores Adams' upbringing, political career, writings and marriage. Featuring insights from Adams experts David McCullough and Joseph J. Ellis, the program also contains commentary from Cokie Roberts and Richard Broohkhiser. Winner of two 2008 Gold "Davie" awards -- produced in association with

HBO Films by Murray Street and Grand Central Marketing.

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Swingtime

Artemis Media's newest music documentary Swingtime traces the story of black students struggling to keep their schools open in the late ‘30s by bringing the sounds of swing across the nation. Touring school ensembles like The Bama State Collegians, Prairie View Coeds, and International Sweethearts of Rhythm also laid the groundwork for a change in perceptions of race and gender in America.

Tonea Stewart hosts the hour, balancing music with comments from historians and members of the bands. They provide a unique perspective on this dramatic period of black history. Through their performances, these men and women changed the way a nation understood its own complexion.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Murray Street has teamed with the financial services giant to produce podcasts on a variety of topics, including health care, new media convergence, tax planning, and the company's annual report. We even did one on "How To Make a Podcast"!

Find out more about our podcast and streaming services by clicking here.

W.C. Handy's Blues

William Christopher Handy didn’t invent the blues -- but he heard them in a deep and understanding way. Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell (of Sweet Honey in the Rock) reports on his life and legacy in W.C. Handy‘s Blues, an hour-long public radio special. (Handy is pictured between Louis Armstrong and producer George Avakian).

Handy's classical music career and education were turned around by a lesson in a bar room. Now, in Handy’s own voice we learn how he came to write the compositions that would change music history, Memphis Blues and the St. Louis Blues.

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HEAT with John Hockenberry

HEAT with John Hockenberry received a George Foster Peabody Award and helped break new ground for public radio in 1990.

Now, eleven remastered and reinvigorated hours of HEAT are available exclusively on PRX.org. New introductions by John Hockenberry wrap conversations with George Carlin, Spalding Gray, Linda Barry, Matt Groening, Harry Shearer, Joyce Carol Oates, Athol Fugard, George Foreman, Jimmy Tingle and more.

Plus, live music we can dance to - Dr. John, Mose Allison, Billy Bragg, Nora York, Loudon Wainwright, "Betty" and more. At last the left and right brain can party together.

Murray Street proudly markets and distributes our programs alongside those of our peers and colleagues. As you browse this site, you will find a showcase of award-winning music, performance and features. We are adding new audio each month, so come back often for some of the best in public radio. We are proud founding members of AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio.