WQXR

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WQXR is New York City’s only all-classical music station, immersing listeners in the city’s rich musical life on-air at 105.9FM, online at WQXR.org, and in person through live events and performances. WQXR presents new and landmark classical recordings, as well as live concerts from New York City’s concert halls and performance venues, and broadcasts essential destination programs including Carnegie Hall Live, Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Broadcasts, New York Philharmonic This Week, New York in Concert, This Week with Yannick, and the Young Artists Showcase. WQXR also produces podcasts that reach new audiences for the artform: Every Voice with Terrance McKnight, The NY Phil Story: Made in New York, The Open Ears Project, Helga, and—in partnership with the Metropolitan Opera—the critically acclaimed opera podcast, Aria Code. As a public radio station, WQXR is supported through the generosity of its members, donors, and sponsors, making classical music relevant, accessible, and inspiring for all.

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13 Pieces

NEW SEASON beginning April 14, 2023! A new season of Carnegie Hall Live, a broadcast series featuring concert recordings captured live during the 22-23 season from New York City's world-famous concert hall, launches on April 14! The 13-part series begins with Carnegie's Opening Night Gala concert with The Philadelphia Orchestra and soloist Daniil Trifonov and continues with performances from some of the classical music world’s most esteemed artists. Through March 31, 2023, you are still welcome to carry any of the broadcasts from the prior season listed below.

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: May 04, 2023
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To mark the 150th birthday of Claude Debussy, WQXR is offering a five-episode series dedicated to Debussy’s works for piano hosted by David Dubal.

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Sep 11, 2012
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5 Pieces

The Jonathan Channel’s newest series For The Record explores the making of five seminal Broadway cast albums produced by Thomas Z. Shepard. Shepard hosts the series with fellow record producer and Broadway aficionado Julian Fleisher.

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Nov 08, 2016
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10 Pieces

From New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music, Meet the Composer is a Peabody-Award winning five-part radio series that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most engaging, innovative, and beautiful music today. Featuring host Nadia Sirota with composers John Luther Adams (2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music), Caroline Shaw (2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music), Donnacha Dennehy, Marcos Balter, and Andrew Norman.

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Jun 07, 2016
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10 Pieces

From New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music, Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning five-part radio series that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most engaging, innovative, and beautiful music today. Season 2 features host Nadia Sirota with Meredith Monk, Kaija Saariaho, Ingram Marshall, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Nico Muhly

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Jun 07, 2016
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36 Pieces

The Jonathan Channel is celebrating Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday with “Sinatra 100."

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Oct 30, 2015
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  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Oct 25, 2019
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19 Pieces

The series that asks the question: what makes the Great American Songbook so darned great?

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Feb 01, 2016
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8 Pieces

The Sopranos with Debbie Voigt, a new eight-part series, celebrates the essential operatic role and the people who have given it voice. With lively music and commentary, each one-hour episode highlights a different aspect of the soprano’s world, including an examination of different types of soprano voices, illustrated with important sopranos of past and present. Voigt also takes a lighthearted look at selected opera plot themes, including death scenes and mad scenes. The Sopranos with Debbie Voigt is a production of WQXR and is supported in part by The Thompson Family Foundation and the Monteforte Foundation.

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Dec 23, 2014

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Caption: Pop singer Frank Sinatra poses for a portrait with arranger Axel Stordahl in circa 1945., Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
Sinatra once said “I think that Axel Strodahl was the daddy that people began to learn from in the sense of writing orchestrations. He was the most...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Movie stars Donna Reed and Frank Sinatra hold their Oscars which they won for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively in the movie 'From Here To Eternity', Credit: Earl leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
In the 1950s, a changing world posed many personal and professional challenges for Frank Sinatra. Writer Adam Gopnik explores Sinatra’s ability to ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
Caption: Pop singer Frank Sinatra poses for a portrait with arranger Axel Stordahl in circa 1945., Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
Sinatra once said “I think that Axel Strodahl was the daddy that people began to learn from in the sense of writing orchestrations. He was the most...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:45
Caption: Pop singer Frank Sinatra leans against a lamp post smoking a cigarette in a still from a movie in 1954., Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
Author James Kaplan analyzes Frank Sinatra’s interpretation of the Cole Porter classic “What Is This Thing Called Love” from the 1954 album In the ...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 03:17
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Caption: American singer and actor Frank Sinatra gestures with his hands while singing into a microphone during a recording session in a studio at Capitol Records, early 1950s. , Credit: M. Garrett/Getty
How did Frank Sinatra, a skinny boy from Hoboken, become an American icon and the champion of the Great American Songbook? Author Adam Gopnik expla...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:47
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Caption: Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Image dated June 28, 1964. , Credit: CBS Photo Archive/Getty
February 9, 1964, the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and popular music changed forever. Tom Santopietro shares the reaction of one of th...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 03:09
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Caption: Frank Sinatra, as Mike Connor, and Bing Crosby, as C.K. Dexter-Haven, in 'High Society', Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty
Bing Crosby once said “Frank is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?” Will Friedwald discusses Sinatra...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
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Frank Sinatra took his wife Nancy to see the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1937 and pointed up to the stage and said: “See the singer guy? One day I’ll...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:54
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Caption: Frank Sinatra 1949, Credit: NBC/Getty
The nickname, “The Voice,” was given to Frank Sinatra by his PR agent, George B. Evans in 1942. Though a gimmick at the time, the name has proven t...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:50
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This final recital of this season's Concerts from the Frick Collection features the New York recital debut of Cambini Quartet, a Paris-based period...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 57:00
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