music.wikisort.org - ComposerBob B Boilen (b. April 10, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American musician and media personality. He is the host and creator of NPR's online music show All Songs Considered.
American musician and media personality
Not to be confused with Bob Bolen.
Bob Boilen |
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 Bob Boilen (2014) |
Born | (1953-04-10) April 10, 1953 (age 69)
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Career |
Show | All Songs Considered |
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Network | NPR |
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Style | Presenter |
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Country | United States |
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Website | bobboilen.info |
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From 1982 to 1986 Boilen filled a variety of roles including composer with Baltimore's Impossible Theater. He has also worked as a producer for Channel 50, and produced Science Live for the Discovery Channel. Boilen was the director of the NPR show All Things Considered (1989–2007) and chose the music between the news stories for that show. Those musical snippets or "buttons" was the starting point for the creation of All Songs Considered.
Boilen created the Tiny Desk Concert series for NPR Music, hosting intimate performances at his desk. The series curated by Boilen and the team of NPR Music was inspired by a comment made by NPR Music's Stephen Thompson when he jokingly invited musician Laura Gibson to perform at Bob's desk. The two of them went to see Gibson at a show at SXSW in 2008 and the loud crowd made it impossible to hear her. The name of the series is a play on the name Tiny Desk Unit, a band Boilen played in from 1979–1981.[1]
Bob Boilen writes electronic music with friend Michael Barron;[2] both were founding members of the psychedelic dance band Tiny Desk Unit (1979–1981), for which Boilen played synthesizer.[3] Boilen continues to write music with Barron in a band called Danger Painters and also writes and releases solo music. Boilen also composed the original theme music for Talk of the Nation.[4]
He voiced himself in "Gal of Constant Sorrow", a Season 27 episode of the animated television series The Simpsons.[5]
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NPR |
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Productions |
- All Songs Considered
- All Things Considered
- Alt.Latino
- Code Switch
- Here and Now
- How I Built This
- Invisibilia
- Morning Edition
- Planet Money
- TED Radio Hour
- The Thistle & Shamrock
- Throughline
- Tiny Desk Concerts
- Up First
- Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
- Weekend Edition
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Distributions |
- 1A
- Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
- Car Talk (reruns only since 2012)
- Fresh Air
- From the Top
- Latino USA
- Mountain Stage
- Only a Game
- Piano Jazz
- StoryCorps
- World Cafe
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Current personalities |
- Noah Adams
- Nancy Barnes
- Eleanor Beardsley
- Melissa Block
- Meghna Chakrabarti
- Leila Fadel
- David Folkenflik
- Tom Gjelten
- Don Gonyea
- Terry Gross
- Linda Holmes
- Jon Hamilton
- Maria Hinojosa
- Steve Inskeep
- Mary Louise Kelly
- Anthony Kuhn
- Bill Kurtis
- Mara Liasson
- Tom and Ray Magliozzi
- Michel Martin
- A Martínez
- Kelly McEvers
- Bob Mondello
- Renée Montagne
- Michele Norris
- Sylvia Poggioli
- Arun Rath
- Guy Raz
- Fiona Ritchie
- Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
- Peter Sagal
- Ari Shapiro
- Scott Simon
- Lakshmi Singh
- Alix Spiegel
- Susan Stamberg
- Nina Totenberg
- Linda Wertheimer
- Shankar Vedantam
- Jenn White
- Robin Young
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Former personalities | |
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Former productions |
- Ask Me Another
- Bryant Park Project
- Day to Day
- The Diane Rehm Show
- Earplay
- Jazz Profiles
- News & Notes
- NPR Playhouse
- Radio Expeditions
- Talk of the Nation
- Tell Me More
- State of the Re:Union
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See also |
- American Public Media
- NPR stations
- NPR Music
- NPR controversies
- NPR One
- Public Radio Satellite System
- Pacifica Foundation
- Public Radio Exchange
- Public Radio International
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[de] Bob Boilen
Bob Boilen (* 10. April 1953 in New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischer Radiomoderator, Musiker und Autor. In seiner drei Jahrzehnte langen Karriere beim National Public Radio (NPR) machte er sich einen Namen als Tastemaker, der seine Vorlieben vor allem abseits des musikalischen Mainstreams hat. Landesweite Bekanntheit erlangte er als Erfinder und Host der Sendungen All Songs Considered und Tiny Desk Concerts.
- [en] Bob Boilen
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