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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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: Apr 01, 2024
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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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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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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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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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The Jonathan Channel is celebrating Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday with “Sinatra 100."

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  • Updated: Oct 30, 2015
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  • Updated: Oct 25, 2019
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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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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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Series: Sinatra 100
Caption: Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald on The Frank Sinatra Show - Airdate: May 9, 1958, Credit: ABC Photo Archives/Getty
Author Adam Gopnik explores the musical talents of Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong, Julie London and of course Frank Sina...

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Caption: Frank Sinatra;Tony Bennett at 'Frank Sinatra and Friends' - air date: April 21, 1977, Credit:  ABC Photo Archives/Getty
Tony Bennett first met Frank Sinatra in 1942, at Sinatra's famous Paramount Theater gig. Bennett and author James Kaplan bring us back to 1501 Broa...

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Caption: Entertainers Deana Martin, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra perform on a Christmas special TV show in December 1967., Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Stinger/Getty
Tom Dreesen and Will Friedwald explore Sinatra’s family, friends, and personal life.

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Caption: Frank Sinatra 1960, Credit: GAB Archive/Getty
Author Tom Santopietro explores Sinatra the superstar – a tender tough guy with super human drive.

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Series: Sinatra 100
Caption: 1975: American singer and actor Frank Sinatra in concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Credit: Joe Bangay/Getty
Author Adam Gopnik examines the contradictions in Sinatra, his musical choices at the end of his career and the enduring status of his life work.

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Caption: American singer and actor Frank Sinatra laughs during a performance with musician and bandleader Tommy Dorsey 1941, Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty
According to critic Will Friedwald, it was on the bandstand that Frank Sinatra was most comfortable.

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Caption: Singer and actor Frank Sinatra, Hollywood, California, mid 1950s, Credit: Underwood Archives/Getty
Author Tom Santopietro takes us back to the amazing and storied 1950s comeback of Frank Sinatra.

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Caption: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly carried by Frank Sinatra in a publicity still from the film, 'High Society', 1956, Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty
Author Will Friedwald discusses Bing Crosby’s influence on Frank Sinatra’s career in music, radio and film.

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Caption: 25th July 1953: American singer and actor Frank Sinatra performing during a visit to London, Credit: Ronald Startup/Getty
Author Adam Gopnik tells the story of the confidential, refined and emotional side of Sinatra.

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Caption: 2nd June 1944: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) as Clarence Doolittle in MGM's 'Anchors Aweigh', directed by George Sidney. , Credit: John Kobal Foundation/Gettu
Tom Santopietro author of Sinatra in Hollywood examines Sinatra on the screen.

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