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.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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