Tune in to Live Constructions tomorrow evening from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. to hear a live interview with New York City based drummer, songwriter, and vocalist Jeremy Carlstedt. The interview will feature Carlstedt on the making of his new album, Stars Are Far, his time playing with the late Chico Hamilton’s Euphoria group, his ongoing tour, and more along with select tracks from Stars Are Far.
Kirsten Flagstad is thought by many to be the definitive Wagnerian soprano. In the Norwegian soprano's two decades at the Metropolitan Opera, she only sang two non-Wagnerian roles. One of those was Gluck's Alceste, with which she made her farewell to the Met. Tune in to Saturday Night At The Opera on February 6th to hear her in this role in what would be one of her final opera recordings. In this 1957 radio broadcast from Copenhagen, she sings the title role in her native Norwegian, while the other cast members sing Danish.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Wednesday, February 3 at 3 pm for an exclusive in-studio interview with trumpet player Peter Evans. The program will last 2.5 hours, featuring an exclusive interview as well as recordings from the Peter Evans Quintet, its members, and more.
The Peter Evans Quintet will be performing live at Roulette this Friday, February 5 at 8 pm. The quintet will play a partially improvised set of all new music and will feature guest saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock and Aaron Burnett.
Join us at WKCR this Saturday, January 30th as we celebrate the 105th birthday anniversary of one of the foundational figures of the Swing Era, jazz trumpeter Roy “Little Jazz” Eldridge. Known for his signature boldness in rhythm and sound, Eldridge is often accredited for his role in bridging the musical styles and approaches of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. Born in 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Eldridge spent the early years of his career touring with a number of dance bands.
Please join us and tune in to Afternoon Classical on Thursday, January 28th at 3:00 PM for an exclusive in-studio interview with American violist and WQXR Q2Music radio host, Nadia Sirota. During Thursday's Afternoon Classical program, Sirota will discuss her upcoming residency at Symphony Space with artists including Liam Byrne, yMusic, and Richard Reed Parry.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 27 for an exclusive in-studio interview and live set with Elliott Sharp, Jenny Lin, and John Richards (of JACK Quartet), all about Elliott Sharp's new release The Boreal. The two-hour program will feature interviews with Jenny Lin, John Richards and Elliott Sharp, followed by a WKCR-exclusive solo guitar performance by Elliott Sharp of his piece The Hidden Variable. The entirety of The Boreal will also be played throughout the program.
Tune in to WKCR for the 19th annual Antonio Carlos Jobim Festival this Monday. With this, we will be continuing the tradition of broadcasting the music of Brazil's most famous composer, Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim on his birthday.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Tuesday, January 19th for an exclusive in-studio interview with composer Daniel Wohl. The show will feature a 45-minute interview with Wohl, as well as tracks from his upcoming new album Holographic. The world premiere performances of Holographic will take place at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on Thursday and Friday, January 21 and 22, 2016.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Monday, January 18th for an exclusive in-studio set with Weasel Walter and Daniel Carter. The show will feature a 70-minute free improv set with Weasel Walter on drums and Daniel Carter on saxophone, trumpet, clarinet and flute.
Weasel Walter is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser. He founded The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991, and has collaborated with Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, among many others.
Mozart's operas are performed with the frequency of almost no other opera composer, yet nearly all his popular operas today premiered in the last ten years of his life. Tune in to Saturday Night at the Opera on January 16th to hear his fifth opera Mitridate, re di Ponto. Composed when Mozart was just fourteen, Mitridate pits a royal family against each other in a fight for the crown.
Sid Gribetz presents a special five hour radio show celebrating the career of alto saxophonist Ernie Henry this Sunday January 17 from 2- 7 PM on "Jazz Profiles" on WKCR.
Tonight at midnight, WKCR will begin our twenty-four-hour birthday broadcast in honor of Max Roach.
While Pierre Boulez was famous for his incendiary call to blow up the opera house, several of his greatest recordings are, in fact, his live opera recordings at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1976, he collaborated with French director Patrice Chéreau on the Centennial production of Der Ring Des Nibelungen. Chéreau's interpretation of the mythic opera as a biting commentary on capitalism and the Industrial Revolution polarized audiences, yet Boulez's conducting of the Ring Cycle was equally daring.
Following the announcement of Pierre Boulez’s death this morning, WKCR will dedicate all programming to Boulez’s recordings from 3:00 PM on Wednesday, January 6th through 6:00 PM on Thursday, January 7th. It is almost impossible to sum up the contributions Pierre Boulez has made to classical and new music. Over Boulez’s career spanning seven decades, Boulez broke barriers both in his championing of his fellow contemporary composers and in his conducting of the standard repertoire. Join WKCR-FM and WKCR Classical in this tribute to one of the most important musicians of all time.
WKCR will preempt our regular programming for the next twenty-eight hours, from 5:00AM Tuesday to 9:30AM Wednesday, at the conclusion of the next Daybreak Express, in order to celebrate the life and work of renowned pianist and free jazz pioneer Paul Bley, who passed away at the age of 83 on January 3rd. Bley’s skill and often unconventional methods made him a giant of the 60’s free jazz revolution and led him to collaborate with such talent as Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and Cecil Taylor.
WKCR will preempt regular programming for the next twenty-seven hours, from 5:00AM Tuesday at the start of Daybreak Express, to 8:20AM Wednesday, at the conclusion of the next Daybreak Express, in order to celebrate the life and work of renowned pianist and free jazz pioneer Paul Bley, who passed away at the age of 83 on January 3rd. Bley's skill and often unconventional methods made him a giant of the 60's free jazz revolution and led him to collaborate with such artists as Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and Cecil Taylor.
Ring in the new year with Massenet's comic opera Chérubin. While the mischievous Cherubino is best remembered in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, Massenet lovingly portrays the pageboy as a young Don Juan. Tune in to Saturday Night At The Opera to hear an all-star cast featuring Samuel Ramey, June Anderson, Dawn Upshaw, and Frederica von Stade in the title role. Stepan Atamian hosts. Photo credit: Hans Fahrmeyer.
We have another streaming option available for this year's Bach Festival. If you are having trouble accessing our MP3 or RealAudio streams, please download our SHOUTcast stream. It will open automatically.
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UPDATE: WKCR regrets that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was cut short during the Kurt Masur Memorial Broadcast. In light of this incident, we have decided to broadcast the entire recording during Cereal Music on Monday morning at approximately 9:30 AM. Once again, we apologize and thank you for your understanding.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music today at 3:00 pm for an exclusive interview with Petr Kotik, Alvin Lucier, and Eli Greenhoe about the S.E.M. Ensemble's upcoming concert this Saturday at 8:00 pm. The program will feature a 40-minute interview and recordings from the composers, including Alvin Lucier's chamber work, Orpheus Variations.
Be sure to tune in to the Moonshine show Sunday, December 13th to catch a live set with The Stash Wyslouch String Band! Boston-based Stash Wyslouch is one of bluegrass’ great young genre-bending pioneers. He got his start as a guitarist in metal bands before immersing himself in the structures of roots music as a member of progressive bluegrass act, The Deadly Gentlemen. Now paving his own way as a solo artist with a new group, Bluegrass and Metal collide to form an original, honest and thoughtful sound.
This week marks the centennial of soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's birth. One of the most recorded artists of the twentieth century, Schwarzkopf established herself as the definitive lyric Strauss and Mozart soprano of her generation. Tune in to Saturday Night At The Opera December 12th at 9:00 PM EST to hear Herbert von Karajan's beloved recording of Der Rosenkavalier, featuring Christa Ludwig, Teresa Stich-Randall, Nicolai Gedda, and Schwarzkopf as the iconic Marschallin.
Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week’s edition of the Musician’s Show, which will feature a live broadcast of the Freddie Keppard Discographical symposium taking place at Lincoln Center's Swing University. Phil Schaap will moderate a panel consisting of Jon Faddis, Jon-Erik Kellso, Terry Waldo, and Ben Young.
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Sid Gribetz presents a tribute to pianist, vocalist and songwriter Bob Dorough for five hours this Sunday December 13 on “Jazz Profiles” from 2-7 PM on WKCR radio.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Monday, December 7 at 3 pm for an exclusive in-studio interview with Chris McIntyre and Anthony Coleman of TILT Brass. The program will feature a 90-minute interview as well as recordings from Anthony Coleman, Chris McIntyre, Liza Lim, and Catherine Lamb.
TILT Brass Sextet will be performing live at Miller Theatre this Tuesday, December 8 at 6 pm. The free concert will feature the world premiere of 3 new pieces by Anthony Coleman, Chris McIntyre, and Catherine Lamb, as well as compositions by James Tenney and Liza Lim.
WKCR announces our annual Bach Festival. For the ten-day period from December 22nd at 9:30 AM through December 31st at 11:59 PM, WKCR (89.9 FM, 89.9 HD1, and wkcr.org) will dedicate all broadcasting to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. J.S. Bach has had an unparalleled influence on the Western classical tradition. He has inspired a worldwide following dedicated to performing and celebrating his work, as well as a devoted and rigorous academic tradition.
Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week’s edition of the Musician’s Show, where we will be joined by drummer, composer, and educator Ari Hoenig. Born in Philadelphia, Hoenig’s father was a conductor and classical singer, and his mother was a violinist and pianist. At age 4 Hoenig also began to study violin and piano and at age 12 began to study the drums. He attended the University of North Texas, studying with Ed Soph, but transferred to William Paterson University in 1995 to be closer to New York.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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