VoiceBox

In “Aging Voices,” we speak to Colorado seniors

whose voices have changed, their directors, and a professor who

believes that singing when you're older is good for you.

See more at:

http://www.cpr.org/news/story/voicebox-colorado-seniors-sing-intellectual-spiritual-health

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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

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.