Murray Street Productions and Marketing

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

The second president of the United States and a man whose neo-Puritan 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, broadcaster and author of Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, and Richard Broohkhiser of the National Review.

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Symphony Space Live

Peter Norton Symphony Space Executive Director Cynthia Elliott and Artistic Director Isaiah Scheffer have worked with Murray Street Productions to capture more than two dozen performances, ranging from the modern minstrel Sufjan Stevens to the Broadway anthems of Stephen Sondheim, and from joyous 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. The programs will be available directly to listeners at symphonyspace.org and to radio stations at prx.org.

Symphonyspace.org launched with a dozen performances on January 10, 2008 -- the day of Symphony Space's 30th anniversary celebration. Highlights of that event, featuring Don Byron, David Amram, Calvin Trillin, and Roy Blount, Jr. will be available for streaming soon.

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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 sourcing, and the company's annual report. We even did one on How To Make a Podcast, for use by PWC division!

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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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Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio

Join Wynton Marsalis at the House of Swing! Now Wynton hosts Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio every week.

This winter, we focus on the craft of composition, with practitioners old and new. First up is legend Thad Jones, in a concert featuring former members of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. Other distinguished composers get their due: Duke Ellington, Gil Evans and saxophonist Benny Carter...

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UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS
Listen for Darin Atwater's gospel sounds starting 3/20, and Wynton's "In This House, On This Morning" starting 4/3.

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 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.

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 et al.

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.

In association with Murray Street, Radio Netherlands Worldwide is proud to present the European Jazz Stage with Daniel Frankl. Until 13 new episodes for 2008 are released in July, we encourage stations to run the past series, featuring a herd of international jazz stars in vibrant settings -- from McCoy Tyner to The Neville Brothers to Han Bennink.

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Pulse of the Planet

Now in its 18th year, Jim Metzner's award-winning Pulse of the Planet celebrated the release of its 4000th episode last year. Even after 4000 episodes, the program remains fresh with a new series of special editions. The 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 deeper inside our world.

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 founding members of AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio.