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July 4, 2009
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Folk Music
With Jim Blum

10:09
Nanci Griffith: The Loving Kind (The Loving Kind)


10:12
Devil In A Woodpile: I Shall Not Be Moved (Division Street)


10:15
Alison Brown: Under the (Five) Wire (The Company You Keep)


10:19
Martin Sexton: Star Spangled Banner (42nd Kent State Folk Festival)


10:23
David Wilcox: Last Chance Waltz (Home Again)


10:27
Hot Club of Cowtown: Reunion (Wishful Thinking)


10:30
LeVent du Nord (the North Wind): Vive l'Amour (Mesdames et Messieurs)


10:37
Willie Nelson/Asleep at the Wheel: Bring it on Down (to my House) (Willie and the Wheel)



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BBC World Service
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Classical Music with Bob Christiansen



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12:00
Classical Music with Scott Blankenship



12:00
Folk Music with Jim Blum



1:00
Classical Music with Scott Blankenship



5:00
Classical Music with Scott Blankenship



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BBC World Service


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Folk Music with Jim Blum
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12:00
BBC World Service

For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there.

5:00
BBC World Service

For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there.

6:00
Other Voices

A weekly presentation of the best in public radio long-form documentary and journalism from across the country and right at home

7:00
Speaking of Faith

Public radio's premiere national program about religion, meaning, ethics and ideas hosted by journalist and theologian, Krista Tippett.

What’s Playing Now?

Classical Music
With Bob Christiansen

10:06
John Philip Sousa: Bullets & Bayonets (Eastman Wind Ensemble)


10:10
John Adams: The Chairman Dances (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra)


10:24
Morton Gould: Folk Suite (London Symphony Orchestra)



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Folk Music with Jim Blum
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BBC World Service



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12:00
Classical Music with Scott Blankenship



5:00
Classical Music with Scott Blankenship



6:00
Classical Music with Gillian Martin



12:00
The Baroque Era with David Roden



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Music and the brain

The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Clinic put on an international symposium in Salzburg, Austria.

WKSU's Vivian Goodman reports
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Vivian Goodman
We've been hearing for years that if our children grew up listening to Mozart they'd be smarter and do better in school. There's some truth to that according to researchers at Cleveland Clinic. But it's not the most important thing they're finding out about how our brains are affected by music. And the brain scientists are getting help in their research from the Cleveland Orchestra.

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