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Compact Discoveries is an exciting new approach to beautiful classic music -- light, not formal... personal, not academic... friendly, not frightening. Each hour is based on a different theme, such as "Discs for Dishwashing," "Best Music for Back Rubs," "Musical Beasts,"  "Musical Feasts," "From Norway to Broadway,"  "From the Classics to Carmen Cavallaro,"  "A CATalog of Music," "The Color of Music," and "Music by the Numbers."

The series delights audiences from Alicante, Spain, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Palm Beach, Florida, and Eugene, Oregon. The host is award-winning writer and public broadcasting producer Fred Flaxman. He loves music and knows how to share that enthusiasm with his audience. He particularly delights in uncovering unjustly neglected composers and compositions that listeners will enjoy on first hearing -- thus inspiring the name of the series.

Compact Discoveries is made possible in part by Story Books, publishers of The Timeless Tales of Reginald Bretnor, and by Educate Yourself for Tomorrow.

Listen to Compact Discoveries streamed on demand at www.prx.org

Compact Discoveries Radio Programs

Find information on the music you heard (or will hear) on Fred Flaxman's Compact Discoveries radio programs by clicking here. You will find complete scripts to all the programs (except quizes). These programs are distributed worldwide through PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. You can stream the programs on demand there. For a list of Compact Discoveries program titles, without program descriptions, click here.

Stations Broadcasting Compact Discoveries

A list in alphabetical order by state and city of stations accepting Compact Discoveries for broadcast, showing the day and time of broadcast when available.

Introducing Fred Flaxman

A one-page biographical summary of the career of the writer/editor/publisher and public broadcaster.

Listener Reactions to Compact Discoveries Radio Programs

Read what listeners think about Compact Discoveries.  Add your own comments via e-mail.

Broadcasters Reactions to Compact Discoveries

Read what professional public broadcasters, station managers, program directors and music directors think about Compact Discoveries.

Future Compact Discoveries Programs

Compact Discoveries becomes inter-active! See a list of some of the ideas Fred is working on for future programs. Contact him by e-mail at fred@compactdiscoveries.us with your ideas for future themes, music that would fit the themes listed here, or clever titles for these upcoming programs. Any suggestions used will be credited both here and on the air, and you'll receive a free compact disc.

Compact Discoveries Columns

Fred's classical music columns appeared in the Jefferson Monthly, the regional magazine of Jefferson Public Radio, serving southern Oregon and northern California, and in INPRINT, the quarterly magazine of the BSU Radio Network in Idaho. By clicking on Compact Discoveries here or above you will visit Compact Discoveries: A Personal Voyage through Classical Music on Compact Discs, a book in progress.


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