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About
All Songs Considered
All Songs Considered is NPR's on-line music show. You can listen to new music, hear live concerts, watch videos and slideshows and hear interviews with NPR reviewers and artists about their favorite CDs. It's a great way to discover and learn about musicians who often don't get much or any airplay.
We initially started All Songs Considered after receiving countless letters from listeners who wanted to know more about the music played between stories on NPR's evening news program, All Things Considered. But All Songs Considered has since grown to feature music from all genres, all over the world. We're always in search of great musicians and sometimes ones that are just a lot of fun.
You
can submit
original music for possible use on All Songs Considered. Just
follow our submission
guidelines.
Bob Boilen created All
Songs Considered. Along with hosting the program,
he's been the Director for All Things Considered for
more than 15 years. You can listen
to an in-depth interview with Bob Boilen from NPR member station
WCAI-WNAN in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Or read
more about Bob here.
The
Producer for All Songs Considered is Robin Hilton.
He builds the programs featured here and can help you with any
questions you might have. E-mail
Robin, or read more about him.
Bob
Boilen
Bob Boilen is currently the director of National Public Radio's
All Things Considered, a job he has had since 1989.
Prior to working at NPR, Boilen was the composer, technician and
recording engineer for Baltimore's Impossible Theater. In fact
it was the group's 1983 work called "Whiz Bang, a History
of Sound" that first introduced NPR to Boilen. As discussed
in an All Things Considered interview with Susan Stamberg,
it was one of the first digital sound pieces. The work contained
sampled sounds from nature that were performed on a piano keyboard
and turned into music. Listen
to the program now.
Bob Boilen continues to write and record music and make short films. You can see and hear his work and download it for free at his Web site: www.bobboilen.info
Now as director of ATC, Boilen chooses music for the program,
segue music, feature pieces and reviews. The segue music is often
one of the most remarked upon elements of the program. It's a
unique blend of eclectic yet accessible music. Bob Boilen continues
to compose music. His compositions include, The Talk of the
Nation theme as well as the National Geographic/NPR collaboration
Radio Expeditions theme. Boilen was also the producer for
Discovery Channel Science Live, a weekly webcast science
show.
Robin Hilton
Robin Hilton joined All Songs Considered as the Producer after co-founding Small Good Thing Productions, a non-profit production company for independent film, radio and music in Athens, GA. Before that, he lived and worked in Okazaki, Japan where he was a translator for the government and taught English as a second language to junior high school students.
From 1989 to 1996, Robin worked for NPR member stations as a Senior Producer and Assistant News Director and was a long-time contributing reporter to NPR's daily news programs. His features and documentaries have aired on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Soundprint.
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