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Amanda Gookin for Live Constructions

Tune in to Live Constructions Sunday, February 19 from 10:00-11:00 PM EST to hear a live in-studio performance with cellist Amanda Gookin. Gookin will be premiering her Forward Music Project, which aims at encouraging social change and empowerment for women and girls, at the National Sawdust on March 1.

Date: 
Sun, 19 Feb 2017, 10:00pm to 11:00pm

Stephanie Chou for the Musician's Show

Tune in to the Musician’s Show on Wednesday, February 15 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM EST for music presented by Stephanie Chou, a saxophonist, singer, and composer based in New York City whose music combines classical and Chinese influences with jazz and pop harmonies and rhythms. In 2011, Chou released her first album, Prime Knot, a jazz quintet CD featuring trumpeter Marcus Printup (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra). She has written for ballet and theater as well as for the concert stage.

Date: 
Wed, 15 Feb 2017, 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Stephanie Chou for the Musician's Show

Tune in to the Musician’s Show on Wednesday, February 15 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM EST for music presented by Stephanie Chou, a saxophonist, singer, and composer based in New York City whose music combines classical and Chinese influences with jazz and pop harmonies and rhythms. In 2011, Chou released her first album, Prime Knot, a jazz quintet CD featuring trumpeter Marcus Printup (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra). She has written for ballet and theater as well as for the concert stage.

Date: 
Wed, 15 Feb 2017, 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Patricia Michaels for Arts and Answers

Tune in to Arts and Answers on Thursday, February 16 from 9:30 - 10:00 PM EST for an interview with Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo), the founder and designer of the eco-conscious fashion brand PM Waterlily. Michaels has developed a cottage industry in her local town of Taos, New Mexico, which produces her clothing according to ethical business practices. She was also a contestant on the 11th season of Project Runway. She emphasizes the importance of film and video to expand the visibility for her work.
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Thu, 16 Feb 2017, 9:30pm to 10:00pm

NoDAPL NYC on Late City Edition

Tune in to Late City Edition on February 13 at 9:00 PM EST for a special report on the NoDAPL Standing Rock Solidarity Rally that happened on January 24 in New York City. In addition to the coverage of speeches given by indigenous activists who had been at Standing Rock and filmmaker John Fox, our reporter followed the march as it moved from Trump Hotel to Trump Tower, and the interactions the protestors had with police.


Date: 
Mon, 13 Feb 2017, 9:00pm to 9:30pm

Philip White for Live Constructions

Tune in to Live Constructions Sunday, February 12 from 10:00-11:00 PM EST for an exclusive in-studio live set and interview with Brooklyn-based musician Philip White. Working with an array of homemade electronics at the intersection of noise, jazz and contemporary concert music, White is known for his ecstatic intensity and expressive sonic palette that exploits the tension between rigorous, closed electronic systems and the urgency of human compulsion.
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Sun, 12 Feb 2017, 10:00pm to 11:00pm

Eddie Jefferson on Jazz Profiles

Sid Gribetz presents a special radio broadcast celebrating the career of vocalist Eddie Jefferson this Sunday, February 12, 2017 from 2:00-7:00 PM EST on for Jazz Profiles.
Eddie Jefferson was the progenitor of the style known as “vocalese”, the writing of lyrics to the improvised solos on jazz instrumental recordings.
Jefferson was born on August 3, 1918 in Pittsburgh.
Date: 
Sun, 12 Feb 2017, 2:00pm to 7:00pm

No-Land Bands

Tune in to Middle Eastern Influences tonight, February 9 from midnight-1:00 AM EST for an exclusive recording of "A Journey to Aleppo", the first music-video collaborative performance by the creative project, No-Land Bands. On January 15 at the Lower East Side's venue, Spectrum, this 5-part performance followed Aleppo before the war, during its destruction and fall, and into exodus of refugees and the camps they must call "home".
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Thu, 9 Feb 2017, 11:59pm to Fri, 10 Feb 2017, 1:00am

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Emmet Cohen on Out to Lunch

Join us Tuesday, January 17 during our Out to Lunch programming from 1-2:30 pm EST for an interview with New York-based jazz pianist Emmet Cohen regarding his most recent project "Masters Legacy Series featuring Jimmy Cobb." Cohen began Suzuki method piano instruction at age three, and his playing quickly became a mature melding of musicality, technique, and concept. He placed first in both the American Jazz Pianists competition (2014) and the Phillips Piano Competition at the University of West Florida (2011).

Date: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Related Program: 
Out to Lunch
Related Department: 
Jazz

Aspen Matis on Studio A

Tune in to Studio A this Sunday, January 15, from 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST for an interview with internationally-bestselling memoirist Aspen Matis. Her book, Girl in the Woods, tells the story of her sexual assault and her flight from college, which led to a journey of self-discovery as she set out to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.

A brief account of her experiences appeared first in The New York Times' Modern Love column, and that subsequentally led to her inspiring and heart-wrenching memoir.

Date: 
Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 9:00pm to 10:00pm
Related Program: 
Studio A
Related Department: 
Arts

George Wallington Celebration on Jazz Profiles

Sid Gribetz presents a five hour radio program celebrating the pianist and composer George Wallington on Jazz Profiles this Sunday, January 15 from 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST.
George Wallington was one of the legendary pianists of the bebop era but never achieved great fame. With his early retirement from a musical career, he remains a more obscure figure in jazz history and lore.
Date: 
Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 2:00pm to 7:00pm
Related Program: 
Jazz Profiles
Related Department: 
Jazz

Streaming WKCR during Bach Festival Announcement

We, the WKCR Board, wanted to address any of the inconveniences experienced in using our stream. Unfortunately, our online stream regularly approaches maximum capacity during the Bach Festival. As we try to accommodate for more listeners, we implore anyone tuning in within our radio broadcasting range to tune in with a radio receiver.

Date: 
Thursday, December 25, 2014 - 12:00pm to Wednesday, December 31, 2014 - 11:59pm

Gustav Leonhardt Memorial Broadcast

This Friday, January 20th, WKCR will be devoting over eleven hours of programming to the music of Gustav Leonhardt (5/30/1928-1/16/2012). As a harpsichordist, organist, and conductor, Leonhardt was on the forefront of the movement in early music to revive period styles and practices. While best known for his recordings of J.S. Bach, Leonhardt made spectacular recordings of many different early music and Baroque composers. Tune in from 9:30am-9:00pm to hear WKCR's tribute to this legendary musician.
Date: 
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 9:30am to 9:00pm
Related Department: 
Classical
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