Fred Flaxman places Post-Classical Ensemble at PRX's Compact Discovery Series

NPR host Fred Flaxman presents Compact Discoveries 135: "Score 2 for Virgil," the first complete recordings of the scores for two Great Depression-era U.S. government propaganda and award-winning films: The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River. This award-winning film music, composed by Virgil Thomson in 1935 and 1937, is now available in a new, all-digital Naxos CD, by Washington D.C.'s Post-Classical Ensemble, conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez. Flaxman's presentation is now available at prx.org -- http://www.prx.org/pieces/23977.

For the second year in a row, Compact Discoveries has won first place as the most frequently licensed series of any distributed by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. The programs are available for streaming-on- demand without charge by listeners, and downloading for broadcast without charge by public radio stations. The series is also streamed on the internet by several public radio stations throughout the United States. For further information and direct links to programs for auditioning go to
www.compactdiscoveries.com.