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."

  • From: WQXR
  • 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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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
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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
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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
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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 ...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:37
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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.

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
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Nurse Jackie’s Edie Falco ditches her scrubs and joins Julian Fleisher to explore the music of her past on the Naked American Songbook.

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi hits the Naked American runway to show his love and knowledge of the songbook.

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
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Comedian Rachel Dratch revisits her youth, sharing memories of theater camp, Cole Porter, and patriotic Passover Seders on this week’s episode of T...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Humorist, journalist, actor Mo Rocca reflects on the role the Great American Songbook played in his life from Judy Garland, trust falls, and Triple...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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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
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