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: Singer Frank Sinatra and bandleader Count Basie record in the studio on October 2, 1963, Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Stinger/Getty
Quincy Jones speaks on his work with Frank Sinatra during the Sinatra/Basie recordings at the Sands with commentary by author Tom Santopietro.

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Caption: circa 1942: American singer Frank Sinatra crouches to kiss his daughter, Nancy Jr., good-bye while his wife, Nancy, watches at a train platform., Credit: Hulton Archive/Stringer/Getty
Nancy Sinatra interviews her father, while author Tom Santopietro explores what family meant to Sinatra.

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Caption: Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim on FRANK SINATRA: A MAN AND HIS MUSIC PART III -- Aired 11/13/1967, Credit: NBC/Getty
In 1967 arranger and conductor Claus Ogerman took Sinatra and Jobim into the studio to record. Author Will Friedwald explores this spectacular epis...

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Caption: Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra with host Johnny Carson THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON -- Aired 11/12/1976 , Credit: NBC/Getty
Tom Dreeson comments on the 1976 hilarious appearance of Frank Sinatra on The Tonight Show, when Johnny Carson and comedian Don Rickles cooked up a...

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Caption: Sinatra and Riddle, Credit: ABC Photo Archives/Getty
It's no secret that the work of Nelson Riddle did wonders for Sinatra. In this segment Riddle and his son Christopher tell the story of how Riddle ...

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Caption: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, and Yul Brynner in 1965., Credit: John Dominis
Nancy Sinatra had two big records in the mid-1960s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin” and “Something Stupid” the first instance of a father-daughter...

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Caption: American actor and singer Frank Sinatra clowning around with spaghetti for an EKCO products commercial on the set of CBS-TV's, 'The Frank Sinatra Show.' , Credit: CBS Photo Archive/Getty
Author Tom Santopietro explains how Frank Sinatra changed the status of all ethnic minorities in America.

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Caption: Singer and actor Frank Sinatra, Hollywood, California, c. 1963, Credit: Underwood Archives/Getty
In 1963, Frank Sinatra was interviewed for Playboy Magazine author James Kaplan tells the story.

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Caption: A telop title card for the The Frank Sinatra Show television show. Image dated January 1, 1952. , Credit: CBS Photo Archive/Getty
Author Will Friedwald discusses Frank Sinatra’s evolution into the world of television.

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Caption: Vintage postcard showing the entrance to the Sands Hotel. The marquee announces Frank Sinatra and Joey Bishop as the current entertainment., Credit: Curt Teich Postcard Archives
Author James Kaplan discusses how Frank Sinatra made Las Vegas what it is today.

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