Artist Check-In with Sharon Isbin
ARTIST CHECK-IN: Elliott Forrest sat down with Grammy winning guitarist Sharon Isbin who once again branches out with two new albums: "Strings for Peace" is a collection of Indian Ragas with the sarod player Amjad Ali Kahn and the other new album is all World Premieres, from such composers as Chris Brubeck and Tan Dun.
Living Music: Pirate Radio Edition Episode 25
Watch a new episode of Living Music: Pirate Radio Edition with host Nadia Sirota. Featuring a WORLD PREMIERE by Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry performed LIVE over Zoom by musicians in Berlin, Montreal, New York and Los Angeles, music and performances by Clarice Jensen, plus a spiritual reimagined by RRP via Charles Mingus. More info at livingmusicshow.com.
Slow New Way Ensemble is:
André de Ridder
Ayumi Paul
Justin Peters
Pemi Paull
Jannina Kara Norpoth
Newsha Khalaj
Jennifer Thiessen
Anna Atkinson
Jonah Sirota violist
Drew Alexander Forde
Nadia Sirota
Richard Reed Parry
Clarice Jensen
“Mindful Minutes”: Lara Downes presents “Oh Beautiful”
For today's "Mindful Minutes" from GatherNYC, Lara Downes presents "Oh Beautiful: A Summertime Celebration of American Music" featuring works by Florence Price, John Wineglass, William Grant Still, Irving Berlin and more. GatherNYC Artistic Directors, cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd, make a special guest appearance.
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About the performance, In Lara's own words:
“This American summer is one of uprising and upheaval, crisis and chaos. We’re revisiting our history, reckoning with our essential ideals: Unalienable Rights... Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This is a summer of change.
I want to celebrate the beauty that we create as we move along this American journey, always changing.
These are the sounds of summer by some great American composers."
4th of July on WQXR
ON-AIR, tomorrow, July 4th Celebration (all-day Saturday, 7/4): Spend this Independence Day with WQXR! Tune in for a beautiful summertime playlist and music that celebrates the American spirit throughout the day! The soundtrack to your Fourth of July, is Classical New York, WQXR.
Music Break: Revisit WQXR’s Note-able Women
Watch an encore stream of our concert featuring all-women composers, with performances by pianist Olga Kern, singer Lucy Dhegrae, tenor Nick Phan and the Vuillaume Trio.
Mindful Minutes: Boyd Meets Girl plays Messiaen’s “Louange”
GatherNYC Co-Artistic Directors Laura Metcalf - cellist and Rupert Boyd - classical guitarist perform "Louange a l'Éternité de Jesus" by Olivier Messiaen. The piece, written while the composer was imprisoned in a POW camp during the Second World War, is the one movement from his "Quartet for the End of Time" scored just for cello and piano.
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#MemorialForUsAll - Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, led by Louis Langrée, leads Lincoln Center's ninth #MemorialForUsAll, performing works by Mozart & Arvo Pärt to honor those lost to COVID-19.
Memorial For Us All is a secular community remembrance, welcoming all to celebrate the lives of those who have left us too soon.
If you would like to submit the name of someone to be honored, go to http://LincolnCenter.org/MemorialForUsAll
Lift Every Voice and Sing - Gateways Music Festival
For 27 years, Gateways Music Festival’s mission has been to connect and support professional classical musicians of African descent and enlighten and inspire communities through the power of performance. Through a series of more than 50 orchestra and chamber music concerts in Rochester, NY, Gateways creates a space where black musicians are heard, affirmed, and celebrated.
WQXR and the classical music world broadly have a long way to go to reach true equity and inclusion for all people of color. But Black musicians have been engaged in classical music since before Beethoven composed his first piece. Classical music is not white – period. And at WQXR we want to hear classical music that is from and for all people in all its richness and diversity of tone and color. This special performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was recorded by members of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from their homes and put together by WQXR to send a message of hope and unity to communities throughout the world.
The Dream Unfinished: An Activist Orchestra
A special Juneteenth concert featuring musicians from The Dream Unfinished: An Activist Orchestra. This event includes the poetry of Langston Hughes set by composer Margaret Bonds, poetry by James Emanuel, and a performance of Lift Every Voice and Sing, the "Black National Anthem." With Jasmine Wilson on vocals, Joey Chang on piano and narration by Damian Norfleet.
The Dream Unfinished: An Activist Orchestra
A special #Juneteenth concert featuring musicians from The Dream Unfinished: An Activist Orchestra. This event includes the poetry of Langston Hughes set by composer Margaret Bonds, poetry by James Emanuel, and a performance of Lift Every Voice and Sing, the "Black National Anthem." With Jasmine Wilson on vocals, Joey Chang on piano and narration by Damian Norfleet.
Live via Zoom! Tune in to our livestream on June 19 at 4PM.
Today is Juneteenth and WQXR marks the day with a 24-hour marathon of composers and performers of African descent and a live conversation at 7pm with Terrance McKnight.
Pride week with Anthony Roth Costanzo and Davóne Tines
Opera stars Anthony Roth Costanzo and Davóne Tines perform a moving tribute of Franz Schubert's Ave Maria for all the transgender and gender non-conforming people that have been killed this year.
Pride week - John Holiday
Countertenor John Holiday's voice has been called “a thing of astonishing beauty” (New Yorker). He joined the WQXR Pride celebration with a song that could very well be the LGBTQ+ anthem - "Over the Rainbow."
Pride Week - Sara Davis Buechner
Pianist Sara Davis Buechner celebrates Pride with a couple rounds from Dana Suesse's Cocktail Suite including “Bacardi” and “Manhattan.”
Mindful Minutes: Meditations on Freedom by Lara Downes
This morning, on Juneteenth, we share a special edition of “Mindful Minutes” with you from our friends at GatherNYC. Today, pianist Lara Downes presents “Meditations on Freedom” featuring musical selections by Black composers including Duke Ellington and William Grant Still, as well as her own thoughts on this historic day and this historic time.
WQXR Celebrates Pride
WQXR continues its celebration of the LGBTQ+ community with its Second Annual Pride Show, a virtual video concert recorded in the homes of some of the world’s most legendary performers. Guests include The Metropolitan Opera star Anthony Roth Costanzo, pianist Sara Davis Buechner, cellist Hannah Collins and more.
Artist Check-In with cellist Sterling Elliott
WQXR's latest Artist Check-In with Elliott Forrest is with the award-winning cellist Sterling Elliott, who recently posted on Facebook a heartfelt position on Black Lives Matter. The full text is posted here. While in the post he says, "Don’t get me started about the classical music world", in our video he is given the full opportunity to express his feelings. He also talks in great detail about the work of the Sphinx Organization.
Sterling Elliott, cellist
Facebook Post, June 7th, 2020
It’s most difficult to see your mentors and teachers explicitly not supporting the BLM movement. Teachers and mentors that were essential to your growth as a musician, as a person. Essential to who I am today. This is not a political opinion where you look that way and I look this way and we agree to disagree. This is highly highly personal. The way I see it you can’t possibly care for, or about me if you don’t recognize a single damn thing about the struggles I encounter on a daily basis. You cannot care about me if you choose to ignore that and deny the experiences I have to go through as a black man in this country. Don’t get me started about the classical music world, but trust me you could imagine lol it ain’t that hard. Let’s not be dense.
This is for me and ALL my black brothers and sisters, we share so much in common. Almost comical how we have soooooo many of the same experiences with racism in our lives...And who the hell are you people NOT of color to tell us what we do and do not go through? Does that even make any sense?
This isn’t my response to the entirety of the BLM movement and my part in it, that’s still a lengthy draft in the works that may never see the light of day. This is more of a warning to those that have been so close to me. What I’m saying is that our past means nothing to me if you choose to keep an ignorant and bigoted mindset on the obvious issues at hand.
Personally I don’t want to just block all these people. People I have always cared dearly for
Learn With Carnegie Hall
Hear enchanting lullabies written by parents in New York City and around the world as part of Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project in this episode of Learn with Carnegie Hall. This year’s Lullaby Celebration Concert honors what lullabies are all about: intimate moments of family life.
Family Show: Revisit WQXR’s ‘The Pirates of Penzance’
Watch an encore video stream of this delightful all-kids production of The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan’s most popular operetta.
Check-In with Kent Tritle
In this latest WQXR Artist Check-In video we hear from one of New York's great choral directors, Kent Tritle. What a busy guy, he's Director of Music and Organist at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York and Musica Sacra. He teaches at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music and plays organ for the New York Philharmonic. Hear how he's keeping all that going during this pandemic.
Live With Carnegie Hall: Joel Thompson
Troubled by the onslaught of killings of unarmed black men and after finding Shirin Barghi’s #lastwords project, composer Joel Thompson wrote Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, a multi-movement work performed by the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra and University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, conducted by Eugene Rogers.
WQXR’s Midday Masterpieces: Kerson Leong
Settle in for an hour of musical serenity with our live video stream featuring a performance by Canadian violinist Kerson Leong, presented in partnership with The Violin Channel.
#MemorialForUsAll - Ailyn Pérez
AILYN PÉREZ leads the fifth #MemorialForUsAll tribute to honor those we've lost to COVID-19.
Renée Fleming in Der Rosenkavalier
“Music can do something that's very difficult to do with just spoken word, and that is illuminate one's inner thoughts, one’s inner life, and they do that so brilliantly.” –Renée Fleming on the music of #Strauss in #DerRosenkavalier.
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Jamie Barton sings 'Che faro senza Euridice?'
NEW #AriaCode: “He's had his panic and now he is feeling reality setting in. He's never going to be able to call to her and get her back.” Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton on Orfeo’s grief after losing Eurydice. Listen to the full episode now! ariacode.org
Aria Code: 'Dove sono' from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
“Where did the spark with my husband go, and how do I get it back?"
Rhiannon Giddens and her guests talk marriage and betrayal in #Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with Susanna Phillips, Soprano, Santa Fe Opera dramaturg Cori Ellison, and sex advice columnist Dan Savage.
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