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Interview about 9/11 and 3/11/11 on Cereal Music and Late City Edition

Tune in Tuesday morning at 11am for Cereal Music and Tuesday evening at 9pm for Late City Edition to hear an interview with the coordinators and artists of the upcoming 8th Annual Circle Wind Concert on September 11th. Programmer Fernanda Douglas speaks with Andrew Anderson, the father of Taylor Anderson, an American teacher who was lost in the tsunami and to whom this year's concert is dedicated; Mike Shirota, director of Japan Choral Harmony; Lalala Teramoto, daughter of Tateo Teramoto, concert producer from Ishinomaki, Japan; and Gregory Singer, director of the Manhattan Symphonie.

Date: 
Tue, 8 Sep 2015, 11:00am to 10:00pm

Maybelles on Honky Tonkin' This Week

This Tuesday on Honky Tonkin’ we will have a special live performance by the Maybelles featuring Jan Bell on guitar and vocals, Rima Fand on violin, and Tina Lama on bass. Tune in to listen to this Brooklyn-based folk and country music trio. Jan Bell is also the founder and artistic director of the First Brooklyn Americana Music Festival taking place on the 25th through 27th of this month.

Date: 
Tue, 8 Sep 2015, 10:00pm to 11:30pm

Causings on Live Constructions

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

Date: 
Sun, 6 Sep 2015, 10:00pm to 11:00pm

The Monteverdi Trilogy On Saturday Night At The Opera 9/5, 9/12 and 9/19

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.

Date: 
Sat, 5 Sep 2015, 9:00pm to Sun, 20 Sep 2015, 1:00am

Brahms's Deutsches Requiem On Cereal Music 9/2

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.

Date: 
Wed, 2 Sep 2015, 9:30am to 12:00pm

Exploring "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" on 9/1's Arts and Answers

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.

Date: 
Tue, 1 Sep 2015, 9:30pm to Wed, 2 Sep 2015, 10:00pm

Conversations on the Leading Edge on 9/1 and 9/3's Late City Edition

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.

Date: 
Tue, 1 Sep 2015, 9:00pm to Thu, 3 Sep 2015, 9:30pm

Deep Focus on Horace

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!

Date: 
Mon, 31 Aug 2015, 6:00pm to 9:00pm

The Ze Luis Quartet on Som do Brasil

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.

Date: 
Wed, 26 Aug 2015, 11:00pm to 11:59pm

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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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