Episodes
Friday Nov 21, 2014
Aging Voices
Friday Nov 21, 2014
Friday Nov 21, 2014
See more at: http://www.cpr.org/news/story/voicebox-colorado-seniors-sing-intellectual-spiritual-health
Friday May 02, 2014
Stuttering
Friday May 02, 2014
Friday May 02, 2014
In “Stuttering,” we speak to Ryan Pollard, an instructor at CU Boulder, and Tom Krueger, a choir leader in Denver, both of whom have lived with a stutter since they were young.
Wednesday Mar 26, 2014
Auctioneering
Wednesday Mar 26, 2014
Wednesday Mar 26, 2014
VoiceBox
is a sound-rich exploration of the human voice. In each five-minute
episode, host Chloe Veltman, reporter Alyssa Kapnik and sound engineer
Seth Samuel explore pitch and harmony, meet shouters, singers,
announcers and stutterers, and ponder the meaning and importance of the
most primal of musical instruments.
In
“Auctioneering,” we meet Colorado Auctioneers Hall of Famer Steve
Linnebur and Al Carlson, a long-time auction attendee from Golden,
Colorado. We also meet Justin Ochs, an auctioneer from Tennessee.
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Feel The Rhythm
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on September 20, 2013)
Jazz
vocalist and Grammy Awards board member Kitty Margolis discusses how
she helps aspiring jazz singers develop their improvisation chops.
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Charlotte's Changes: From child soprano to indie rocker
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Friday Mar 14, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on September 6, 2013)
The versatile Welsh vocalist Charlotte Church
chats with Chloe Veltman about how she morphed from being one of the
world’s most successful child sopranos to finding her voice in the indie
rock space.
Friday Mar 07, 2014
Pitch Perfect?
Friday Mar 07, 2014
Friday Mar 07, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on June 21, 2013)
Ever since Cher scored a hit with “Believe” in 1998,
Auto-Tune, a digital tool which helps singers adjust their vocal pitch, has
become a ubiquitous presence in the pop music world. Join Andy Hildebrand,
the inventor of Auto-Tune, for a discussion about the tool’s legacy and future.
Friday Feb 28, 2014
What a lovely Aria! I mean Number.
Friday Feb 28, 2014
Friday Feb 28, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on June 14, 2013)
Opera blogger Charlise Tiee (Opera Tattler) and musical
theatre blogger Chad Jones (Theater Dogs) discuss the often porous line that
exists between the worlds of musical theatre and opera.
Friday Feb 21, 2014
The Many Voices of Bob Dylan
Friday Feb 21, 2014
Friday Feb 21, 2014
(Re-run: program initially aired on November 23, 2012)
Bob Dylan’s voice has been compared to sandpaper and described as "a catarrhal death rattle." Blues music aficionado Devon Strolovitch discusses the colors of Dylan's vocal instrument.
Friday Feb 14, 2014
Pucker up
Friday Feb 14, 2014
Friday Feb 14, 2014
Virtuoso whistler and music journalist Jason Victor Serinus chats about the art of whistling and making a career out of this oft derided vocal art form.
Friday Feb 07, 2014
Gramophone Gods
Friday Feb 07, 2014
Friday Feb 07, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on March 29, 2013)
Singer and early vocal recordings champion Meredith Axelrod chats about the vocalists who pioneered recorded sound technologies in the early twentieth century and the revival of interest in singing and recording techniques from this period today.
Friday Jan 31, 2014
DIY songs for kids
Friday Jan 31, 2014
Friday Jan 31, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on March 8, 2013)
Erin Bregmann of the Little Opera Company, a San Francisco-based organization that creates operas from scratch with grade school students, Ruth Nott, director of education for the San Francisco Opera, and Graham Welch, a professor of music education at The University of London and a major force behind the UK’s Sing Up! Initiative to inculcate singing in schools, talk about why vocal music education matters and off-the-beaten track ways to get kids participating.
Friday Jan 24, 2014
From Pakistan To The Bay Area
Friday Jan 24, 2014
Friday Jan 24, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on March 1, 2013)
Vocalists Riffat Sultana and Sukhawat Ali Khan, siblings who come from a lauded lineage of Pakistani singers, (their father is the Pakistani musical icon Ustad Salamat Ali Khan) discuss their rich vocal music journey from Hindustani classical music to banghra.
Friday Jan 17, 2014
Singing without sight
Friday Jan 17, 2014
Friday Jan 17, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on February 15, 2013)
Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin discusses what it takes to lead a successful career as a singer when you're blind and how other sight-impaired vocalists such as Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Andrea Bocelli have made world-class names for themselves in a world that's so deeply vision-oriented.
Friday Jan 10, 2014
It’s reigning men
Friday Jan 10, 2014
Friday Jan 10, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on February 1, 2013)
Aaron Humble and Adam Reinwald, who sing with Cantus, one of only two full-time professional men’s choruses in the country, share their thoughts about the culture of the male singing voice in the United States and elsewhere and how they promote singing to young people, especially boys.
Friday Jan 03, 2014
The art of screaming
Friday Jan 03, 2014
Friday Jan 03, 2014
(Re-run: This program originally aired on January 4, 2013)
Voice Speech pathologist and American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) member Sarah Schneider, 'scream' coaching expert Melissa Cross and thrash metal singer Steve Souza (Hatriot, Dublin Death Patrol, Exodus, Legacy/Testament) chat about the physical risks of screaming and how artists who have to raise their voices on a regular basis can do so safely.
Friday Dec 27, 2013
Friday Dec 27, 2013
(Re-run: This program originally aired on November 25, 2011)
There’s more to the relationship between surfing and singing than Beach Boys songs in praise of surf culture. Join chorus director and surfing enthusiast Bob Geary and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman to find out more.
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Friday Dec 20, 2013
Walking in a Winter Singalong Land: On the Joys of Singalong Cinema
Friday Dec 20, 2013
Friday Dec 20, 2013
(Re-run: This program originally aired on December 23, 2011)
The holiday season wouldn’t be the same without a trip to the local movie theatre for a Singalong Sound of Music or Singalong West Side Story. Join performer and impresario Laurie Bushman, the host of the famous singalong soirees at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman, for a look at the culture of the singalong and what makes these events so much fun.
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Friday Dec 13, 2013
Medieval Madonnas: Anonymous 4’s Susan Hellauer on chant
Friday Dec 13, 2013
Friday Dec 13, 2013
(Re-run: This program originally aired on December 16, 2011)
The roots of much western music today lie in the haunting sacred vocal music of Medieval Europe. Join Susan Hellauer, a member of the world-renowned a cappella vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman, for a journey into the history and technique of chant.
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Friday Dec 06, 2013
Don’t Let Your Ears Deceive You: On the art of ventriloquism
Friday Dec 06, 2013
Friday Dec 06, 2013
(Re-run: This program originally aired on August 12, 2011)
Believe it or not, ventriloquists used to be a popular fixture on the radio airwaves. Chloe Veltman welcomes playwright and theatrical impresario Sean Owens, ventriloquist Ron Coulter and Ron’s puppet partner of 60 years, Sid Star, for a discussion about the art, technique and culture of throwing your voice.
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Friday Nov 29, 2013
Angelic Cherubs?: On training boys to sing beautifully
Friday Nov 29, 2013
Friday Nov 29, 2013
(Re-run: This program originally aired on August 5, 2011)
Vienna isn’t the only place where boys sing like angels. The Bay Area and other parts of this country boast some formidable choruses made up of talented young male singers. Kevin Fox, the founding artistic director of the Pacific Boychoir Academy based in Oakland joins VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a chat about the defining characteristics of boys’ voices and the ins and outs of training them en masse.
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