Tune in to Out to Lunch on Tuesday May 5 to hear a live interview with Helen Merrill. She’ll play some of her favorite songs and talk about her recordings with Clifford Brown, her time in Japan, and her collaborations in the 1980’s with British pianist Gordon Beck. Join us in celebrating her illustrious sixty year career.
Tune in this Wednesday at 11:59pm to listen to an interview with Marisa Monte and Arto Lindsay. They will be performing on May 1st and 2nd at the Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) the show Samba Noise, an exclusive musical project crafted for BAM. Marisa Monte is from Rio de Janeiro and has a unique singing style with influences from samba, pop and experimental music.
Join us on Wednesday, April 29th as we celebrate the 116th anniversary of the birth of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, one of the most significant figures in the history of jazz. His innovations in orchestration and composition have informed much of the development of the music. Originally from Washington DC, he moved to New York City where, in 1927, he began his tenure at the Cotton Club. It was there that he rose to international stardom.
As promised, this week's Saturday Night At The Opera is an electrifying live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's La Forza del Destino. Recorded while the Teatro Alla Scala was on tour in Stuttgart, the performance features a legendary cast in its prime, including: Cesare Siepi; Giuseppe di Stefano; and soprano sfogato Leyla Gencer as Leonora. Stepan Atamian hosts.
For the first studio recording of Vivaldi's sixteenth opera Ercole sul Termodonte, no expense was spared to ensure a spectacular cast of Baroque specialists. Rolando Villazon, in excellent voice, leads an all-star cast including Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau, Vivica Genaux, Philippe Jaroussky, and Topi Lehtipuu, with Fabio Biondi leading the Europa Galante. Stepan Atamian hosts. Due to the length of La Forza del Destino, it will be broadcast following the conclusion of WKCR's fundraiser.
WKCR Sports will be preempting the MP3 Stream today to bring you coverage of Columbia-Penn baseball. Both teams (14-2) are tied coming into the final weekend of the regular season for the second straight season. Coverage begins at 12:55pm on the mp3 stream. Game two begins 30 minutes after Game One's conclusion. We will resume normal programming in between games. For our regular programming, please tune-in on your FM dial to 89.9!
On Wednesday April 22nd 2015 at 12:00 AM, WKCR will celebrate the birth of one of the great innovators of American music, bassist and composer Charles Mingus. He was able to accomplish what so many of today's musicians strive for: his music was always original, transcending genre boundaries yet always remaining deeply rooted in the jazz tradition. Early in his career, he performed with such greats as Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, and Lionel Hampton.
Tune in for a special edition of the Firing Lion this Wednesday at 9 p.m. as Columbia's new Athletic Director, Peter Pilling, joins the panel live in studio as our special guest. We'll discuss the state of Columbia Athletics and give our normal update on the weekend in Columbia sports. If you have any questions for Pilling, be sure to send us an email!
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 guitarist Rez Abbasi. Born in Pakistan, Abbasi moved to Southern California at the age of four with his family. He studied jazz and classical music at the University of Southern California and Manhattan School of Music and Indian classical music with tabla virtuoso, Ustad Alha Rahka, accompanist to Ravi Shankar and father of Zakir Hussain.
Members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) George Lewis, Petr Kotik, and Muhal Richard Abrahms join us to discuss their work with the AACM in light of the tribute to the ensemble's 50th anniversary that will take place on April 28th and 29th at the Bohemian National Hall. With members as diverse as Jack DeJohnette, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, and Roscoe Mitchell (among many others), the group has maintained their position at the avant garde for the whole of their time together.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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