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Tune in to Live Constructions this Sunday, September 6th, at 10pm to hear a live set and interview with the Brooklyn band Causings. Causings is made up of several players from the NYC free improv scene: John Welsh, KT Pipal, Vanessa Haddad, James Krivchenia, and Derek Baron . The band in the midst of a US/Canada tour, and they will drop by our studio to play a set of improvised experimental music. Listen!

Artist Bio:

causings is a family band

portraits and landscapes

slide projectors and cell phones

slow and steady

Monteverdi composed three landmark operas that have become the subject of great interest: L'Orfeo; Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria; and L'incoronazione di Poppea. With the rise of the early music movement, these operas have been recorded in "historically informed" performances. While vital, these recordings simultaneously overshadow earlier performances that helped spark interest in this movement in the first place.

Johannes Brahms's German Requiem is one of the most beloved choral works of all time. In the composer's magnum opus, he shuns typical Latin texts and instead opts for German Lutheran texts free of eschatological redemption. The result is what Brahms termed a "human requiem," a meditation of man's time on earth; however, what many do not know about the Deutsches Requiem is that Brahms also composed a piano duet of the entire work for four hands, which has also been used in chamber versions with chorus.

Tune in on Tuesday, September 1st, at 9:30 pm to hear an interview with Stanley Nelson, an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, and the writer, producer, and director of the film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. In this interview, Nelson talks with WKCR programmer Danielle Smith about the complicated nature of the history of the Black Panther Party, the lack of education surrounding them, and the power a youth movement can have. The film will premier at the Film Forum on September 2nd.

Tune in Tuesday, September 1st, and Thursday, September 3rd, at 9 pm to hear the latest from Conversations on the Leading Edge, a collaboration between the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity and WKCR's Late City Edition. In this conversation, Meredith Smith talks with Dr. Peter Coleman about Dynamical Systems Theory, a mathematical approach to sustaining peace and resolving conflict. Dr.

Coming up this Monday from 6pm to 9pm EDT on WKCR, vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus. Hard-to-find radio broadcasts from the WKCR archives help them shed new light on this influential musical thinker.

Where on your dial will you ever find this other than 89.9FM or WKCR.org? Nowhere, that's where!

Well renowned santoor player, Rahul Sharma, famous Afghan rubab player Homayun Sakhi and talented tabla player Salar Nader came together for a concert performance at Carnegie Hall presented by Robert Browning Associates.

Tonight Wednesday August 26, 2015 at 11pm join Jassvan de Lima as he interviews THE ZÉ LUIS QUARTET just back from Cuba after working with over one hundred incredibly talented artists with their current project TRADE WINDS.

The Zé Luis Quartet fronted by sax and flute player Zé Luis, whose resume includes performing with Brazilian greats such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tania Maria and Bebel Gilberto, propels art to the future.

Beginning Thursday, August 27, WKCR will have a four-day festival dedicated to the music of tenor saxophonist Lester "Prez" Young (b. August 27, 1909; d. March 15, 1959), and alto saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker (b. August 29, 1920; d. March 12, 1955). The 27th marks Prez's birthday, and the 29th, Bird's. On Friday, August 28th we will play both Prez and Bird interchangeably throughout the day.

Bassist / producer Melvin Gibbs puts Ornette Coleman in Deep Focus on Jazz Alternatives with Mitch Goldman tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM and wkcr.org.

Tune in Thursday, August 13th, to hear an interview with James C. Strausse, the writer and director of the film People Places Things, and the star of the film, Jemaine Clement. The film follows a newly single graphic novel artist who is attempting to balance his twin daughters, students, and his love life. Strausse and Clement talk with WKCR programmer Chaim Lazaros about the character of the film, the artistic procress, the role illustrations play in the movie, and what audiences can learn from the film.

Tune in to Late City Edition at 9 pm on Thursday, August 13th, to hear Hubert Sauper, the Academy Award-nominated director of Darwin's Nightmare, discuss his latest documentary, We Come As Friends. In We Come As Friends, Sauper travels around the Sudan in a self-built airplane showing his audience glimpes into the present day colonization taking place. In this interview, Sauper talks with WKCR programmer Danielle Smith about the process of making the film, his artistic take on documentaries, and the troubling situation in Sudan right now.

Tune in Monday, August 10th, and Tuesday, August 11th, to hear the latest from Conversations on the Leading Edge, a collaboration between the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity and WKCR's Late City Edition.

This Sunday's edition of Jazz Profiles will feature Japanese composer and arranger, Toshiko Akiyoshi, a 14 time Grammy nominee. Born in 1929, Akiyoshi became interested in the piano at age six; by the time her family had moved back to Japan at the end of World War II, having emigrated to China before Toshiko was born, she had developed a real love for music. She soon began playing piano professionally, which eventually led to her discovery by pianist Oscar Peterson in 1952 during a Norman Granz Jazz at the Philharmonic tour of Japan.

On Tuesday evening, August 11th, the Mostly Mozart Festival presents the North American stage premiere of George Benjamin's opera Written On Skin. Universally hailed as a modern masterpiece, the work now arrives in New York with Barbara Hannigan, the originator of its principal role. In recent years, Ms. Hannigan has distinguished herself as one of the most adventurous sopranos of her generation through the 80 world premieres in which she has performed.

Tune in at 9 pm on Friday, August 7th, to hear an interview with Tom Surgal, the writer and the director of the documentary, Fire Music. Fire Music is a full-length documentary about the Free Jazz Revolution in New York City–a subject which is often ignored when people discuss jazz. Fire Music is currently hosting a kickstarter campaign to help raise the necessary funds for completing this documentary. In this interview, Tom Surgal talks with WKCR programmer Gabe Ibagon about the genre of free jazz, the process of making the documentary, and his inspiration for this film.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Monday, August 3rd, from 3-6PM to hear an interview with Matt Motel of the duo Talibam!. He will stop by to talk about the free jazz/experimental group and their upcoming performance at the Sound + Vision Festival on Monday night. Listen!

Amir ElSaffar on In All Languages --

On Monday August 3rd from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT on WKCR Jazz Alternatives, saxophonist, composer, and leader Eric Person and Mitch Goldman put Ornette Coleman's Prime Time in Deep Focus. Tune in for revelatory live recordings on WKCR 89.9 FM and online at https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Tune in at 9:00 PM on Sunday, August 2nd, to hear Dr. Hannah Star Rogers and Carla Stockton read their original literary works on Studio A. Hannah Rogers holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and is currently in the MFA program at Columbia University, where she teaches university writing. Currently, Hannah is in Arizona with a writing residency at Art Hub.

Tune in on Tuesday, August 4th as we celebrate the supposed 'real' birthday of one of the foundational figures of jazz, trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong. You may have heard our celebration on July 4th, which will be akin to this one, July 4th being the date Satchmo deemed and celebrated his birthday. We will be preempting all regular programming as we honor Pops with 24 hours of swing again.

This Sunday, WKCR's very own Cooper Lynn will be delving into the musical world of Pharoah Sanders, a titan among tenors. Having played with the likes of John Coltrane and Sun Ra, the latter of whom is responsible for the nickname 'Pharoah' (a mangling of the original Ferrell). It was after living in Oakland, CA and touring with Sun Ra that Sanders moved to New York City. He then began playing with Coltrane after he (Coltrane) heard his quartet with Billy Higgins, Wilbur Ware, and John Hicks live at the Village Gate.

Tune in on Thursday, July 30th, to hear an interview by WKCR programmer Kally Patz with Kiarán O’Reilly the cofounder of Irish Repertory Theater and the director of “The Weir,” by Conor McPherson. The play takes place over the course of an evening at a pub in the Irish countryside. Vying for the attention of a newcomer named Valerie, locals exchange ghostly stories over drinks. "The Wier" will be running at the DR2 Theater until September 6th.

Tune in tonight from 6-9 PM to hear guitarist, composer, arranger, vocalist, and songwriter extroardinaire Joel Harrison. Harrison was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2010, and has released over 16 albums as a leader since 1995. He is also a winner of the Jazz Composer’s Alliance Composition Competition, in addition to receiving awards and grants from Chamber Music America, Meet the Composer, the Flagler Cary Trust, NYSCA, New Music USA, and the Jerome Foundation.

Tune in to Afternoon Classical from 3:00-6:00 PM on Thursday July 30^th for a special live in-studio interview with K. Scott Warren, organist, pianist, conductor, and composer. We will explore sacred music, discover some of Scott’s compositions, and WKCR Programmer Elisabeth Stam will speak with him about it all. Scott’s experience as a liturgical musician includes serving as Music Director or Interim Director at several Manhattan churches, including Immanuel Lutheran Church, Park Avenue United Methodist Church, and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Tune in to Saturday Night At The Opera for a special feature on Metropolitan Opera legend Lucine Amara. With stunning musicality and remarkable technique, the Armenian-American soprano was a stalwart performer at the Met who sang leading roles ranging from Gluck to Britten (and everything in between) for over 40 years. Even at ninety, Ms. Amara remains active as the Artistic Director of the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera. Ms. Amara also recently played La Duchesse de Krakenthorp in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment.

Tune in to Early Music on Friday July 31st from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM for a program entirely devoted to the choral and period-instrument orchestral ensemble The Sixteen. The Sixteen was founded in 1977 by Harry Christophers CBE and is perhaps most well known for its excellence in performing early English polyphony works. The ensemble has grown into international renown and is arguably one of the most vibrant and exciting early music groups performing and recording today.

Maati Baani comes to WKCR, 89.9 FM, NYC --

Operagoers who know Georg Büchner's name will probably know him solely for his play Woyzeck, the source material for Alban Berg's Wozzeck; however, many of the German writer's compositions have inspired extraordinary operatic works. Tune in to Saturday Night at the Opera on Saturday July 25th to hear two vastly different adaptations of Büchner's operas.

Gnawa Diffusion and Innove Gnawa on In All Languages -- Sunday July 26th from 11:00 PM to 2:00 AM: This special show will feature live performances and and interviews with two great bands in the tradition of Gnawa music - trance music from Morocco. First, we will broadcast a live set from WKCR's studio with Innove Gnawa. Then, we will broadcast the live performance of Algeria's Gnawa Diffusion recorded last week at Lincoln Center.