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?

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  • 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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Caption: Frank Sinatra in concert at Radio City Music Hall. May 15, 1998, Credit: New York Daily News Archive /Getty
Through music, author Will Friedwald paints a picture of Frank Sinatra’s New York.

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Caption: THE FRANK SINATRA SHOW - Airdate: May 12, 1960., Credit:  ABC Photo Archives/Getty
Producer and author Chuck Granata explains how one voice created three distinct sounds.

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Caption: LIGHT UP TIME -- 1949 -- Pictured: Frank Sinatra, 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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Caption: 2nd June 1958: American singer and film actor Frank Sinatra arriving at London Airport, after flying in from New York to spend a holiday in England before going on to Paris., Credit: J. Wilds/Keystone/Getty
Author Will Friedwald analyzes Sinatra’s 1957 recording of “Moonlight in Vermont” arranged by Billy May for the album Come Fly With Me.

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Caption: Photo of Frank Sinatra; posed, in recording studio January 01, 1956, Credit: GAB Archive/Getty
1953 Frank Sinatra moved to Capital Records and began working with Nelson Riddle. Author Will Friedwald discusses the impact of their album Songs f...

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Caption: Entertainer Frank Sinatra poses for a portrait leaning on his Ford Thunderbird in the driveway of his home in 1955. , Credit: Frank Worth, Courtesy of Capital Art
Author Tom Santopietro examines Sinatra in post-war America and how his music reflected the country's prosperity and anxiety.

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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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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  • Length: 02:45