All Pieces for WQXR

 
Bonus Track - Excerpts from The Hunger by Donnacha Dennehy
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
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In 1844, Asenath Nicholson, a school teacher, reformer and proprietor of an all-vegetarian boarding house in New York City, traveled to Ireland to ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 14:54
Bonus Track - "Sabina" from The Companion Guide to Rome by Andrew Norman
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
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In 2007, composer and newly minted Rome Prize recipient Andrew Norman found himself among 15 artists and 15 scholars heading to the Eternal City fo...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 13:14
Bonus Track - The Wind in High Places by John Luther Adams
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
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Gordon Wright, the Alaskan composer, conductor, professor, and environmentalist, was John Luther Adams's best friend. When he died suddenly in 200...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 24:07
Celebrating West Side Story
From: WQXR
Caption: Poster for West Side Story, Credit: GAB Archive / Getty
WNYC’s Julian Fleisher hosts an hour of music and conversation celebrating the legend, the music, and the masterpiece that is West Side Story with ...

Bought by KMUW and WFMT Station Account


  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:37
  • Purchases: 2
The Song of Songs
From: WQXR
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"I am sick with love." These five words say so much. Love is like a sickness and it affects the entire human race.

Bought by WVIA, 'The Sea', and WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 6: Edie Falco
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Caption: Edie Falco, Credit: Joe Kohen/Stinger / Getty
Nurse Jackie’s Edie Falco ditches her scrubs and joins Julian Fleisher to explore the music of her past on the Naked American Songbook.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5: Isaac Mizrahi
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Caption: Isaac Mizrahi, Credit: Getty/Mark Sullivan
Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi hits the Naked American runway to show his love and knowledge of the songbook.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 4: Rachel Dratch
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Caption: Rachel Dratch, Credit: Getty/Brad Barket
Comedian Rachel Dratch revisits her youth, sharing memories of theater camp, Cole Porter, and patriotic Passover Seders on this week’s episode of T...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 3: Mo Rocca
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Caption: Mo Rocca, Credit: The Cooking Channel
Humorist, journalist, actor Mo Rocca reflects on the role the Great American Songbook played in his life from Judy Garland, trust falls, and Triple...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, KUER, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 2: Martha Plimpton
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Caption: Julian Fleisher and Martha Plimpton circa 2004, Credit: Doug Budin
Martha Plimpton shares her devotion to Aretha, what it's like singing for Sondheim, and who she thinks should really get credit for the American So...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KCMJ Community Radio, and WFAE


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 1: Chris Noth
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Caption: Chris Noth, Credit: Getty/Dimitrios Kambouris
Television star, Chris Noth kicks his shoes off with host Julian Fleisher as they undresses his love for music and the legend that is Sinatra.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
#10 - Nico Muhly: Community Theater
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2
Caption: Nico Muhly, Credit: Matthew Murphy
Nico is a composer with a very specific point of view – a rabid communicator whose personality factors massively in his work. Nico works extremely ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
#9 - Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Composing Is Second Nature
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2
Caption: Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Credit: Kristinn Ingvarsson/Q2 Music
Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Icelandic composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound, surrounding the listener in a dark and forbidding l...

Bought by WNMU-FM and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 2
#8 - Ingram Marshall: A Connecticut Hippie In California
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2
Caption: Composer Ingram Marshall, Credit: Timo Andres
Ingram Marshall is often called a California Minimalist, a title which, while not exactly geographically accurate, allies him with a loose cadre of...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
#7 - Kaija Saariaho: Ears Open
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2
Caption: Composer Kaija Saariaho, Credit: Priska Ketterer
Kaija Saariaho's music evokes all sorts of natural sounds, the kinds of complex, white noise-y sounds that we often tune out. She's able to take th...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
#6 - Meredith Monk: Creation as Spiritual Practice
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2
Caption: Meredith Monk, Credit: Kim Nowacki
Living legend Meredith Monk is a composer, vocalist, dancer,choreographer and filmmaker. While all of these descriptors are technically on point, n...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:21:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Hollywood Sound with Daniel Hope
From: WQXR
Caption: Daniel Hope, Credit: Kim Nowacki/WQXR
In the 1930s, thousands of artists, musicians, writers and creative minds began to flee Europe. The rise of fascism forced one of the greatest flig...

Bought by WDPR, KREV-LP, Delmarva Public Media, WFMT Station Account, and WABE


  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
A Swinging Holiday Jazz Party with Wynton Marsalis
From: WQXR
Caption: Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis hosts an hour of holiday jazz favorites by Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KISU, North Country Public Radio, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:44
  • Purchases: 133
The Mensch
From: WQXR
Series: Sinatra 100
Caption: 5th April 1971: American singer and actor Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) holds his Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy Awards, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. County Music Center, Los Angeles, Credit: Frank Edwards/Getty
In 1971, Gregory Peck presented the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Frank Sinatra at the 43rd Academy Awards, comedian Tom Dreesen expands upon...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
Two Sides of Sinatra
From: WQXR
Series: Sinatra 100
Caption: Singer/actor Frank Sinatra, son Frank Sinatra Jr., daughter Tina Sinatra, wife Nancy (Barbato) Sinatra, daughter Nancy Sinatra in July, 1949 , Credit: NBC/Getty
Nancy Sinatra and comedian Tom Dreesen discuss Sinatra at home and on the road with commentary from author James Kaplan.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1

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