Compact Discoveries
A Quick List of Program Titles
in numerical order as of January 23, 2012
• click on the title to link to the complete script
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1 Brazilian Beats  (1994, 2002) Listen Now!
2 Discs for Dishwashing (2002) Listen Now!
3 The Tune That Drove Composers Wild (Part 1) (2002) Listen Now!
4 The Tune That Drove Composers Wild (Part 2) (2002) Listen Now!
5 The First Gershwin (2002) Listen Now!
6 The French Gershwin (2002) Listen Now!
7 The Cuban Gershwin (2002) Listen Now!
8 The Next Gershwin? (2002) Listen Now!
9 Best Music for Back Rubs (2002) Listen Now!
10 Fauré's Fiascoes (2002) Listen Now!

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11 Radio Revisited (2002, 2006) Listen Now!
12 Crazy about Kalinnikov (2002) Listen Now!
13 Leroy Anderson's Clever Musical Miniatures (2002, 2005) Listen Now!
14 All About Alkan (1994, 2002) Listen Now!
15 Favorite Funeral Music (2002) Listen Now!
16 Hats Off to Coates (2002) Listen Now!
17 Music for Halloween (Pledge Event Version) (2002) Listen Now!
18 In Praise of Poulenc(2002)  Listen Now!
19 Aaron Copland: The Brooklyn Cowboy (2002) Listen Now!
20 Controversial Comrade Kabalevsky (2002) Listen Now!

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21 Viva Villa-Lobos! (2002) Listen Now!
22 Music for Hanukkah? (2002, 2006) Listen Now!
23 Schubert's Tuneful Chamber Music (2002) Listen Now!
24 Wagner Without Words (2002) Listen Now!
25 A Symphony for Santa Claus (2002) Listen Now!
26 Neglected Saint-Saëns (2002) Listen Now!
27 Love Music, Part 1 (2002) Listen Now!
28 Love Music, Part 2 (2002) Listen Now!
29 Variations on Very Familiar Tunes (2003) Listen Now!
30 Ravel: The Composer as Pianist and Conductor (2003, 2007) Listen Now!

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31 A Tribute to George Gershwin (2003) Listen Now!
32 Movie Concertos (2003) Listen Now!
33 One-Hit American Composers (2003) Listen Now!
34 More One-Hit American Composers (2003) Listen Now!
35 One-Hit French Composers (2003) Listen Now!
36 Good Old-Time Music by Vieuxtemps (2003) Listen Now!
37 The Birds and the Bees (2003) Listen Now!
38 Summer Music (2003) Listen Now!
39 Leftover Birds (2003) Listen Now!
40 Music of "Rospighi" (2003) Listen Now!

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41 Swan Songs (2003) Listen Now!
42 Sullivan Without Gilbert (2003) Listen Now!
43 From Borodin to Broadway (2003) Listen Now!
44 Name That Tune! [no script available to prevent cheating] (2003) Listen Now!
45 Musical Gardens (2003, 2007) Listen Now!
46 Music for Insomniacs (2003) Listen Now!
47 Classical Kids (2003, 2007) Listen Now!
48 The End (2003) Listen Now!
49 Opus 1 (2003) Listen Now!
50 Joaquín Nin (2003) Listen Now!

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51 Vocalise Variations (2003) Listen Now!
52 Tyzen Hsiao, the Chinese Rachmaninov (2003) Listen Now!
53 Chamber Music Palm Beach (2004, 2006) Listen Now!
54 From Norway to Broadway (2004) Listen Now!
55 James Brooks-Bruzzese (2004) Listen Now!
56 Symphonic Klezmer (2004) Listen Now!
57 The Buster Walk Jamboree (2004) Listen Now!
58 Richard Strauss, Homebreaker (2004) Listen Now!
59 Richard Strauss, Orchestrator (2004) Listen Now!
60 How to Get Kids into Classical (2004) Listen Now!

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61 Swingin' Classics (2004) Listen Now!
62 From Classics to Carmen Cavallaro (2004) Listen Now!
63 Classic Ellington (2004) Listen Now!
64 Music for Autumn (2004) Listen Now!
65 Chanticleer (2004) Listen Now!
66 Dracula (2004) Listen Now!
67 Cécile Chaminade, Part 1 (2004) Listen Now!
68 Cécile Chaminade, Part 2 (2004) Listen Now!
69 Classical Tango (2004) Listen Now!
70 A Russian Winter (2004) Listen Now!

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71 Tarantellas (2005) Listen Now!
72 Hidden Treasures (2004) [a pledge program for use in fund-raising by local public radio stations] Listen Now!
73 Favorite French Waltzes (2004) [a pledge program for use in fund-raising by local public radio stations] Listen Now!
74 Catchy Khachaturian, Part 1 (2005) Listen Now!
75 Catchy Khachaturian, Part 2 (2005) Listen Now!
76 Musical Beasts (2005) Listen Now!
77 More Musical Beasts (2005) Listen Now!
78 A Musical Voyage with Camille Saint-Saëns (2005) Listen Now!
79 Clara Schumann (2005) Listen Now!
80 Orchestral Paris (2005) Listen Now!

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81 Orchestral London (2005) Listen Now!
82 Symphonic Rome (2005) Listen Now!
83 New York, New York (2005) Listen Now!
84 More Musical Cities (2005) Listen Now!
85 Bernstein for Orchestra (2005) Listen Now!
86 Latin-American Rhythms by Jewish-American Composers (2005)  Listen Now!
87 Latin-American Rhythms by Latin-American Composers (2005) Listen Now!
88 René Touzet (2005) Listen Now!
89 The Romantic Patent Officer Manager (2005) Listen Now!
90 Thomas of Nazareth (2005) Listen Now!

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91 Nazareth Encore! (2005) Listen Now!
92 A Musical Feast (2006) Listen Now!
93 Beethoven at His Happiest (2006) Listen Now!
94 Classic Happiness (2006) Listen Now!
95 The Sound of Trees (2006) Listen Now! 
96 Classically Irish (2006) Listen Now!
97 Classically Scottish (2006) Listen Now!
98 Two Stravinsky Ballets in One Hour (2006) Listen Now!
99 Music by the Numbers (2006) Listen Now!
100 Carnival Classics (2006) Listen Now!

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101 More Carnival Classics (2006) Listen Now!
102 Even More Carnival Classics (2006) Listen Now!
103 Classical Disney (2006) Listen Now!
104 More Classical Disney (2006) Listen Now!
105 The Dream of America (2006) Listen Now!
106 Two Unknown Romantic Gems (2006) Listen Now!
107 The Color of Music, Part 1: Blue (2006) Listen Now!
108 The Color of Music, Part 2: The Competition (2006) Listen Now!
109 On the Right Track (2006) Listen Now!

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190 Rachel Barton Pine (2011) Listen Now!
191 William Grant Still (2012) Listen Now!
192 More Still (2012) Listen Now!
193 Still More Still (2012) Listen Now!