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Where college basketball matters. The Field of 68 Media Network presents our flagship show, After Dark. Join a variety of basketball commentators and analysts, from Rob Dauster, Jeff Goodman, and John Fanta, to Terrence Oglesby, Randolph Childress, Tyler Hansbrough, and many more, as they break down the college basketball season every. single. night.
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Composers Datebook

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Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
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The National Link Trust Podcast highlights the work National Link Trust is doing to protect and promote accessible, affordable, and engaging municipal golf courses that will positively impact local communities across the US.
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Aprio Voice

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Delivering considered, contextual strategic communications advice. The Aprio team is a group of skilled, experienced and highly-regarded communications specialists and our strategically-minded team of experts allows us to deliver and implement strategies in key business areas such as investor relations, crisis and issue communications, digital strategy and content creation, and training and development. Recorded and produced by Solid Gold Podcasts | #BeHeard
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"[Listening to] Stories of COVID has been really helpful in reminding me to be ok with the [ups and downs] — literally daily affirmations." - one of our listeners We are living history. Join me in learning what this paradigm shift means in the past, present, and future, for a book for future generations. Veronica Kirin is an anthropologist, author, and entrepreneur who studies paradigm shifts. Her first book, Stories of Elders, documents the high-tech revolution through interviews with those ...
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Nichole Wagner is my guest this week and she just dropped her newest compilation“plastic flowers”. She’s an Austin based singer songwriter. A soulful blend of Americana and folk with a modern twist. She’s been compared to sounds of Jenny Lewis and Stevie Nicks. Thanks to Burress Law PLLC The Guitar Sanctuary and Cadillac Pizza Pub. Originally aired…
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Synopsis Browsing The New York Times for today’s date in 1867, under the banner “Amusements,” you would have seen this notice: “Mr. Theodore Thomas, returned home from his trip to Paris and Berlin, will resume personal control of the concerts given by his orchestra at Terrace Garden this evening.” Born in Germany in 1835, Theodore Thomas came to Am…
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My next guest Mathias Lattin was a surprise find at the Granada Show with Ally Venable. A Texas powerhouse blues guitarist and singer , he’s the only one of his family that didn’t pursue a professional sports life. He won the 2023 International Blues Challenge and has ignited the blues guitar world, but don’t leave him in that category alone. He’s …
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1826, Franz Schubert completed what would be his last string quartet, published posthumously as his Opus 161. 1826 was a rather frustrating year for Schubert. Prospects for commissions didn’t pan out, and he wrote the following note to the oldest publishing house in Germany, Breitkopf & Härtel: “In the hope that my name …
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Synopsis American composer Joan Tower says explaining her music is “sheer torture for me.” Understandably, she prefers to let her music speak for itself, and many of her works have simple, generic titles like Piano Concerto or Concerto for Orchestra. But audiences generally prefer more evocative titles, and on more than one occasion Tower has provi…
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Synopsis Interest in the life of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has been on the rise since her death in 1954, so it’s not surprising that in 1991 she became the subject of the opera Frida, by American composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez, who was born in San Antonio on today’s date in 1946. Like Kahlo’s paintings, Rodriguez’ opera evokes Mexican folk t…
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Rob Dauster and Jeff Goodman react to the first round of the NBA Draft! Sign up for UNIFYD Healing here! The Field of 68 is presented by BetMGM Start earning points for listening to this podcast. Download the Autograph app here and use referral code: F68 Download the VLTED app here Download Rithmm here The Field of 68 merch store is now LIVE SUBSCR…
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Synopsis No four notes in classical music are more familiar than those that open Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Their powerful psychological resonance has often extended beyond music into overtly political contexts. For example, on today’s date in 1941, the British Broadcasting Company began using those notes as a theme for radio shows beamed across E…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1995, the four members of the Arditti String Quartet entered four helicopters warming up their engines at an airfield in Holland. Followed by video cameras, each player’s image and audio was relayed to huge video displays and loudspeakers on the ground for the mid-air premiere of a work titled — what else — Helicopter Qu…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1910, one week after his 28th birthday, Russian composer Igor Stravinsky attended the premiere performance of his ballet, The Firebird, at the Paris Opera, staged by the famous Ballet Russe ensemble of Serge Diaghilev. Recalling the premiere, Stravinsky wrote: “The first-night audience glittered indeed, but the fact that…
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Synopsis According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the biggest, longest, most massively orchestrated symphony of all time is the Gothic Symphony by British composer Havergal Brian. The symphony was composed between 1919 and 1922, but didn’t receive its first performance until 40 years later, on today’s date in 1961, when Bryan Fairfax conduc…
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George Ducas is my guest this week on the heels of his new album release “ A Long Way From Home”. This native Texan singer songwriter has been making us proud with his countless songs recorded by Garth Brooks, The Chicks , Randy Rogers & George Jones to name a few , and has earned top spots in CMT videos and a Grammy nomination. This record culmina…
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Synopsis A New Yorker scanning the music pages of the New York Times for June 23, 1940 might have caught a headline announcing a new work by American composer William Grant Still, scheduled for its premiere the following day at an open-air concert by the New York Philharmonic at Lewisohn Stadium. As bad luck would have it, storm clouds postponed th…
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Synopsis On this date in 1787, an obituary in London’s Morning Post noted the passing two days earlier of Carl Friedrich Abel, 63, a composer, concert impresario and viola da gamba virtuoso. The viola da gamba was the forerunner of the modern cello. Its heyday was in the 17th century, but soon after the softer-voiced gamba lost out to the more powe…
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Synopsis There are dozens of famous cello concertos that get performed in concert halls these days, ranging from 18th century works by Italian Baroque master Antonio Vivaldi to dramatic 20th century works of Russian modernist Dmitri Shostakovich. American composer Sean Hickey was commissioned by Russian cellist Dmitry Kouzov to write a new one, whi…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1901, English composer Edward Elgar conducted the first performance of his cheery, upbeat, and slightly rowdy Cockaigne Overture, a commission from the Royal Philharmonic Society dedicated to his many friends in British Orchestras. Now Cockaigne does not refer to the schedule two narcotic, but rather an old nickname for …
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Rob Dauster, Jeff Goodman, Sam Vecenie, Adam Finkelstein, Corey Tulaba, and Jonathan Wasserman run through their first-round NBA Mock Draft! Sign up for UNIFYD Healing here! The Field of 68 is presented by BetMGM Start earning points for listening to this podcast. Download the Autograph app here and use referral code: F68 Download the VLTED app her…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1926, avant-garde musical piece Ballet Mechanique, scored for multiple pianos and percussion, had its public premiere at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris. Its composer was a 25-year old American named George Antheil. Antheil’s piece had its private premiere earlier that year at the palatial Parisian home of a very…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1985, a brand-new piece of music had its premiere in a brand-new concert hall in Minnesota. American composer Paul Fetler wrote his jaunty Capriccio to celebrate both the first concert of the seventh season of conductor Jay Fishman’s Minneapolis Chamber Symphony and the new Ordway Music Theater in St. Paul, which had ope…
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Calder Allen , this 5th generation Texan and grandson of Austin folk singer Terry Allen is my guest this week. His band graced our stage at Texas Music Revolution with some tunes off his latest release Dreamers Drifters and Hiders produced by Charlie Sexton, and gained a lot of new fans. He’s opening for Red Clay Strays at Billy Bobs and in San Ant…
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Synopsis As Leipzig’s chief provider of both sacred and secular music, Johann Sebastian Bach probably gave a huge sigh of relief on today’s date in 1733. The death of Imperial Elector Friedrich Augustus the First of Saxony earlier that year had resulted in a four-month period of official mourning, which meant NO elaborate sacred music at Bach’s Lei…
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Synopsis Today we celebrate Francis Johnson, born in Martinque in the West Indies on today’s date in 1792. He emigrated to Philadelphia in 1809 at 17. As a teen, Johnson was a master of the violin and the keyed bugle, an early precursor of the trumpet. By his 20s, he was a popular bandleader around Philadelphia. Johnson experimented with various co…
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Synopsis “Listening to inner voices” is a phrase that can mean a lot of things. For violists, providing those inner voices, musically speaking, is their daily bread and butter. In the modern orchestra, the viola provides the alto voice in the string choir, filling in harmonies and musical lines between the violins on top and the cellos and double b…
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Synopsis Bernstein, Blitzstein and Brecht … it sounds a little like a law firm, doesn’t it? But today, we celebrate the anniversary of an important musical partnership involving those three gentlemen. Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein were two American composers who shared a passion for musical theater. Bertolt Brecht was a German poet and play…
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Dan Hurley sits down with Jeff Goodman and Rob Dauster to talk choosing Storrs over LA, the key to a 3-peat and MORE! Sign up for UNIFYD Healing here! The Field of 68 is presented by BetMGM Start earning points for listening to this podcast. Download the Autograph app here and use referral code: F68 Download the VLTED app here Download Rithmm here …
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Synopsis On this date in 1908, Thomas Greene Wiggins died in Hoboken, New Jersey at 59. Known as “Blind Tom Wiggins,” he was one of the most celebrated — and cruelly exploited — Black concert performers of the 19th century. Born enslaved in Georgia in 1849, Wiggins and his parents were offered for sale in an ad reading: “Price: $1,500 without Tom, …
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Synopsis There’s a long list of composers ranging from Vivaldi to Messiaen who have incorporated bird song into their musical works. Today we make note of one of them. On this date in 1893, great Czech composer Antonín Dvořák was vacationing with his family in Spillville, Iowa, spending the hot summer months with a small Czech community who had set…
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Rob Dauster and Jeff Goodman break down Dan Hurley's return, the ACC's big offseason, and much more! Sign up for UNIFYD Healing here! The Field of 68 is presented by BetMGM Start earning points for listening to this podcast. Download the Autograph app here and use referral code: F68 Download the VLTED app here Download Rithmm here The Field of 68 m…
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Synopsis On this date in 1970, the New York Philharmonic, led by Andre Kostelanetz, introduced the world’s largest vocal soloists in the premiere performance of And God Created Great Whales, by American composer Alan Hovhaness. The New York Times review found the music accompanying the recorded songs of whales “fairly inconsequential,” but pleasant…
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