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Guitar Roundup; John King

Evening Music

Airs Monday through Friday at 7PM and Saturday and Sunday at 8PM on 93.9 FM
David spins music both written for and not written for (but performed on) guitar, including Sergio Assad's "Gypsy Songs," Laurindo Almeida's "Lobiana," and a Handel concerto. We also hear music from guitarist/composer John King, who joins David in the studio for an informal chat.

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Talk to David

WNYC's Evening Music Blog

Music for relaxing...music for cooking...music for solving crossword puzzles... while naked? Host David Garland follows up on last week's question — how you listen to Weekend Evening Music — and asks you to weigh in with this weekend's activities.

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Harmonic Presence

New Sounds

Airs daily at 11PM on 93.9 FM
Vocalist, composer, and overtone-singing pioneer David Hykes joins us on this New Sounds to preview new works for harmonic singing.

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Music from the 92nd Street Y with Sara Fishko

Airs Saturdays at 8PM on 93.9 FM, April 26 through July 5, 2008
Sara Fishko digs into the audio archives of the 92nd Street Y to bring us the greatest live performances from the stage of the Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. Curated and hosted by Fishko, the series combines elements from different concerts over the past few years, designed to highlight a particular theme or performer with the radio listener in mind.

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Dancing Up a Storm

Rockwell Matters

Multiculturalism is heating up the dance communities, with performers of far-ranging descents bringing their traditions and styles to bear on our American scene. Commentator John Rockwell considers two excited cases: Taiwanese-born, Martha Graham-technique trained Fang-Yi Sheu and London-born, but of Bangladeshi-descent, Akram Khan.

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Fern Knight

Spinning On Air

Airs Sunday at 7PM on 93.9 FM
Evoking a kind of medieval psychedelia, inspiring visions of suits of armor and electric guitars in fern forests, the Philadelphia band Fern Knight plays their music in the WNYC Studio. With cello, guitar, electric violin, harp, percussion, and vocals they make music that's lyrical and gently noisy.

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James Hoge

Mad About Music

In this wide ranging interview with host Gilbert Kaplan, James Hoge selects operas guaranteed to provide a thrilling first encounter for a teenager; reveals music that could be a soundtrack for his first meeting with his future wife; his memory of singing as a boy chorister on Carnegie Hall’s stage; and why after giving up on piano studies as a teenager he now plans to study the guitar. He even discusses opera roles that best portray Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain.

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Hilary Hahn and Josh Ritter in Concert

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Terrance McKnight takes you on a special musical travelogue as we travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for this sold-out concert with world renowned violinist Hilary Hahn and singer-songwriter Josh Ritter.

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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Live Broadcast from Carnegie Hall

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WNYC presents this live broadcast of the world-renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra from Carnegie Hall, hosted by Evening Music's Terrance McKnight and Soundcheck's John Schaefer. Featured are Aaron Copland's "Latin American Sketches," Ernest Chausson's "Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer" (Poem of Love and the Sea) with Dame Felicity Lott, and George Bizet's Symphony in C Major. Also, a new work from Cuban-born composer Tania León, "Ácana."

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Ear to Ear

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New York City is home to some of the world's most dynamic musicians. Ear to Ear takes innovative musicians off the New York stages and into the studio for relaxed, insightful conversation, as they share their personal recordings with host David Garland. From Carnegie to Southpaw, guests are drawn from a broad range of backgrounds and genres, from classical to experimental and beyond.

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The New Americans

A Station-Wide Celebration on WNYC-FM and WNYC2

WNYC announces The New Americans, an ongoing station-wide celebration of foreign-born artists now residing in the United States.

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Wordless Music

Concerts on Demand

WNYC presents web-exclusive concerts from the Wordless Music Series, hosted by Radio Lab's Jad Abumrad. Devoted to the desegregation of musical boundaries, Wordless Music pairs rock and electronic musicians with more traditional chamber and new music performers, to create an entirely new concert experience.

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Music Festivals and Specials Page

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Want to know what's in Mark Morris' ears? How about what music Alec Baldwin uses to prep for his role on "30 Rock"? And just what makes Wagner's "Ring" so special, anyway? Find the answers to all of those questions and more on wnyc.org's Music Festivals and Specials Page!

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