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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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