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WNYC's Coverage of the Republican National Convention
Live performances in Soundcheck's studios
Studio 360: How Animals Communicate with Each Other
Selected Shorts featuring "The Trouble of Marcie Flint," by John Cheever
Radio Rookies: Brooklyn Broadcast Workshop
On the Media: Challenging Convention
Street Shots Challenge
A guide for music played on WNYC-2
12:00am
Kalinka
Traditional Russian
Moscow Boys Choir
Leonid Baklushin, conductor
IAI Presentations Crescendo!
12:04am
William Tell: Overture
Gioacchino Rossini
Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Carlo Rizzi, conductor
Conifer 55004
12:17am
Strike up the Band: Overture
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
12:25am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 1: Fletcher's American Cheese
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
12:30am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 2: 17 and 21
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
12:35am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 3: Typical Self-Made American
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
12:40am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 4: Meadow Serenade
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
12:45am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 5: Unofficial Spokesman
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
12:54am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 6: The Man I Love
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:01am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 7: Yankee Doodle Rhythm
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:04am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 8: 17&21 reprise
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:05am
Strike up the Band: Act 1, no. 9: Finale
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:18am
The Barber of Seville: Largo al factotum
Gioacchino Rossini
Borealis Wind Quintet
MHS 512526
1:23am
Strike up the Band: Act 2, no. 1:Oh This is such a lovely war
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:27am
Strike up the Band: Act 2, no. 2: Hoping that Someday you'd care
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:30am
Strike up the Band: Act 2, no. 3: Come-Look-At-The-War Choral Society
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:33am
Strike up the Band: Act 2, no. 4: How about a man?
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:35am
Strike up the Band: Act 2, no.5: Finale
George Gershwin
Uncredited Orchestra
John Mauceri, conductor
Rebecca Luker, vocals
Jeff Lyons, vocals
Brent Barrett, vocals
Don Chastain, vocals
Jason Graae, vocals
Beth Fowler, vocals
Nonesuch 79273
1:55am
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Gioacchino Rossini
Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart
Gianluigi Gelmetti, conductor
Angel/EMI 73294
2:02am
Teddy Bears' Picnic
John Walter Bratton
David Grisman, mandolin
Jerry Garcia, banjo & vocals
2:06am
Beans in my Ears
Traditional
Pete Seeger, banjo and vocals
CBS/Sony 65261
2:09am
Joshua fit de battle of Jericho
Traditional
Mahalia Jackson, vocals
2:13am
Stabat Mater
Gioacchino Rossini
Orchestra of Maggio Musicale
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Catherine Malfitano, soprano
Agnes Baltsa, mezzo-soprano
Robert Gambill, tenor
Gwynne Howell, bass
Angel/EMI 68658
3:15am
Piano Concerto in F
George Gershwin
Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler, conductor
Earl Wild, piano
RCA 6519
3:45am
Cuatro Piezas Espanolas
Manuel De Falla
Uta Weyand, piano
Profil 5032
4:01am
The Housewife's Lament
Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Rzewski, piano
Nonesuch 79623-2
4:14am
Don Quixote, Op. 35
Richard Strauss
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
James Levine, conductor
Jerry Grossman, cello
Michael Ouzounian, viola
Raymond Gniewek, violin
Deutsche Grammophon 447762
4:57am
Quodlibet, Op. 9
Kurt Weill
Bremen Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Antony Beaumont, conductor
Chandos 5046
5:00am
"Quiet As The Moon"
Dave Brubeck
John Salmon, piano
Naxos 559301
5:01am
So ro, godt barn
Traditional Norwegian
Trio Mediaeval
Arr. Tone Krohn
ECM 2003
5:05am
12 Microludi, No. 8
Gyorgy Kurtag
Luca Miti, pianoforte
ants ag10
5:05am
Dream Play
Per Norgard
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra
Giordano Bellincampi, conductor
DaCapo 8.226014
5:16am
Lumen
Elliott Sharp
Meridian String Quartet
Tzadik 7084
5:26am
Calonak
Sylvie Courvoisier
Sylvie Courvoisier, piano
Eric Friedlander, cello
Mark Feldman, violin
ECM 1839
5:29am
Piano Sonata
Aaron Copland
Leon Fleisher, piano
Philips 456775
5:52am
Fantasia in six parts No. 1
William Byrd
Fretwork
Virgin 90795
5:57am
Faronell's Division on a Ground; Long Cold Nights
John Playford Collection
David Douglass, violin
Paul O'Dette, Baroque guitar
Andrew Lawrence-King, harp
Harmonia Mundi 3957186
6:13am
Palestrina: Prelude to Act II
Hans Pfitzner
Berlin German Opera Orchestra
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Deutsche Grammophon 449571
6:20am
A Streetcar Named Desire: Nine Piano Sequences
Alex North
Alan Mandel, piano
Premier 1013
6:49am
The King's Hunt
John Bull
Buffalo Guitar Quartet
Centaur 2294
6:53am
City Suite: 15 Bullets, 15 Dead, 20 Wounded
Sekou Sundiata and Douglas Booth
Sekou Sundiata
Mercury 314 534 397-2
6:59am
Tre Improvvisi per Pianola
Gian F. Malipiero
player piano
Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm 645 1404-2
7:04am
American Berserk
John Adams
Nicholas Hodges, piano
Nonesuch 79699-2
7:10am
Songs of Travel
Ralph Vaughan Williams
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Angel/EMI 64731
7:33am
Central do Brasil
Clarice Assad
Sergio and Odair Assad, guitars
nonesuch 278140-2
7:35am
Resonance
Daniel Bernard Roumain
DBR
DJ Spooky
Thirsty Ear 71792
7:40am
"Nanjing Monk"
Min Xiao-Fen
Min Xiao-Fen's Blue Pipa Trio
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa, vocal
Steve Salerno, guitar
Mark Hellas, bass
Blue Pipa, Inc. April 12, 2007
7:45am
Dialogue for Viola and Orchestra
Laurent Petitgirard
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
Laurent Petitgirard, conductor
Gerard Causse, viola
Naxos 8.557602
8:08am
Hungarian Dances, Nos. 2 and 4-9 Wo01
Johannes Brahms
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Naxos 8.570233
8:31am
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 112
Ludwig van Beethoven
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Monteverdi Choir
Deutsche Grammophon 453798
8:38am
Concerto for Two Trumpets in C, Op. 9/9
Tomasso Albinoni
Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra
Jorg Faerber, conductor
Maurice Andre, trumpet
Guy Touvron, trumpet
Angel/EMI 65337
8:50am
Fantasia in six parts No. 1
William Byrd
Fretwork
Virgin 90795
8:54am
Faronell's Division on a Ground; Long Cold Nights
John Playford Collection
David Douglass, violin
Paul O'Dette, Baroque guitar
Andrew Lawrence-King, harp
Harmonia Mundi 3957186
9:11am
In the Beginning
Aaron Copland
Corydon Singers
Matthew Best, conductor
Catherine Denley, mezzo-soprano
Hyperion 66219
9:27am
Over a moving landscape
Steven Burke
Unknown Ensemble
Private Collection
9:43am
Diaphonic Suite No. 1 for Flute
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Continuum
Jay Rosenfeld, flute
Naxos 8.559197
9:48am
All the Way Through Evening / Walt Whitman in 1989
Chris DeBlasio
Downtown Chamber & Opera Players
Mimi Stern-Wolfe, conductor
Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano
Gilles Denizot, heldentenor
Downtown Music Productions 01
9:52am
Prelude from Suite Bergamasque
Claude Debussy
Sergio and Odair Assad, guitars
nonesuch 278140-2
9:56am
Fancy Free
Leonard Bernstein
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
CBS/Sony 47154
10:21am
Flute Concerto
Morton Gould
Slovak Radio Orchestra, Bratislava
Zuohuang Chen, conductor
Keith Bryan, flute
Premier 1045
10:53am
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
William Grant Still
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Chandos 9154
11:17am
Leçon du Mercredy
Michel-Richard de Lalande
Isabelle Desrochers, Soprano
Naive e8913
11:35am
Wayang No. 5
Anthony Davis
Kansas City Symphony Orchestra
William McGlaughlin, conductor
Anthony Davis, piano
Pheeron akLaff, percussion
Gramavision 8807
11:58am
Pilgrimage
Donald Crockett
Vicki Ray, piano
CRI 830
12:56pm
Banchetto musicale: No. 16 in A
Johann Hermann Schein
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall, conductor
Virgin 61399
1:07pm
Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 43
Dmitri Shostakovich
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Chandos 8640
2:08pm
Music for Piano, No. 7
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Steffen Schleiermacher, piano
MDG MDG 613 1385-2
2:17pm
Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112
Gabriel Faure
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon 449186
2:32pm
"Ladna Celadna"
Iva Bittova
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Iva Bittova, violin, voice
Cantaloupe 21027
2:36pm
Romance (1949)
Toru Takemitsu
Kotaro Fukuma, piano
Naxos 570261
2:40pm
Overture: Midsummer Ale, Op. 73
John Gardner
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
Naxos 8.570406
2:45pm
"Moments Musicaux"
Avner Dorman
Eliran Avini, piano
Naxos 579001
2:54pm
Selig ist der mann, der die anfechtung erduldet, BWV 57
Johann Sebastian Bach
Berliner Barock Solisten
Rainer Kussmaul, conductor
Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone
Dorothea Roschmann, soprano
Members of the RIAS Kammerchor
Deutsche Grammophon B0010052-02
3:16pm
Gypsy Sonata in A Minor
George Phillip Telemann
Piers Adams, recorder
Julia Bishop, violin
Angela East, cello
Julian Rhodes, keyboard
Dorian 93208
3:26pm
String Quartet (1978)
Jan Radzynski
Aviv String Quartet
Hagai Shaham, violin
John McGross, violin
Yariv Aloni, viola
Zvi Plesser, cello
CRI 649
3:38pm
"Quiet As The Moon"
Dave Brubeck
John Salmon, piano
Naxos 559301
3:40pm
So ro, godt barn
Traditional Norwegian
Trio Mediaeval
Arr. Tone Krohn
ECM 2003
3:43pm
12 Microludi, No. 8
Gyorgy Kurtag
Luca Miti, pianoforte
ants ag10
3:44pm
Clarinet Trio in B flat, Op. 11
Ludwig van Beethoven
Nash Ensemble
Wigmore Hall 0001
4:00pm
The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives
Orchestra of St. Luke's
John Adams, conductor
Elektra/Nonesuch 979249-2
4:05pm
La Nativite du Seigneur
Olivier Messiaen
David Titterington, organ
Hyperion 66230
5:02pm
"Tossed As It Is Untroubled (Meditation)"
John Cage
Philipp Vandre, piano
Mode 180
5:05pm
Langendria
Dody Satya Ekagustiman
Steffen Schleirmacher, piano
MDG 613 1322-2
5:13pm
Dark Room
Morgan Hayes
London Sinfonietta
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Mark van de Wiel, clarinet
London Sinfonietta Label CD2-2006
5:25pm
Tone Cloud IV
Michael Harrison
Michael Harrison, piano
Cantaloupe 21043
5:38pm
Christian Zeal and Activity
John Adams
San Francisco Symphony
Edo de Waart, conductor
Nonesuch 79144
5:49pm
String Quartet No. 6
Bela Bartok
Takacs Quartet
London/Decca 455297
6:19pm
Peaches
Andre Previn
Elizabeth Mann, flute
Andre Previn, piano
Arabesque 6701
6:24pm
Trumpet Concerto, "From the Wreckage"
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra
Peter Eotvos, conductor
Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
Deutsche Grammophon 4776150
6:39pm
The Desert Music
Steve Reich
Ossia and Alarm Will Sound
Alan Pierson, conductor
Cantaloupe 21009
7:23pm
Power
Sampo Haapamaki
mikko luoma, accordion
bridge 9221
7:32pm
Sonata
Gherman Dzhaparidze
Oleg Timofeyev, guitars
Profil PH07072
7:46pm
i Took My Strength from You (I Had None)
Burt Bacharach (arr. Eyvind Kang)
Eyvind Kang, erhu, violin
Mint, bass, keyboard, percussion, recorder
Tzadik 7114
7:52pm
how i made my millions
Radiohead
Christopher O'Riley, piano
World Village 468034
7:55pm
Russian Folk Themes & Yodel
Traditional
Pete Seeger, banjo and vocals
Smithsonian/Folkways 40018
7:58pm
Sons of Noah
Stephen Hartke
Xtet
Donald Crockett, conductor
Lisa Stidham, soprano
New World Records 80568-2
8:28pm
Gypsy Songs
Sergio Assad
Sergio and Odair Assad, guitars
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Nonesuch 79505
8:36pm
A Hand of Bridge, Op. 35
Samuel Barber
Adirondack Chamber Orchestra
Gregg Smith, conductor
Catherine Aks, soprano
Fay Kittelson, contralto
William Carney, tenor
Richard Muenz, baritone
Gregg Smith Singers
Premier 1009
8:45pm
Chanson, Op. 52
Erik Satie
Sabine Meyer, voice
Marco Dalpane, piano
ants AG13
8:46pm
Mors sui
Guillaume Machaut
Orlando Consort
Archiv 477 6731
8:51pm
Gumba Blue
Maria Schneider
Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra
Maria Schneider, conductor
Greg Gisbert, trumpet, flugelhorn
Kenny Werner, piano
enja ENJ 8048 2
9:00pm
Piccolos and Plungers (1998)
John Berners
Tamara Thweatt, flute/piccolo
Andrew Brobston, soprano saxophone
Albany 956
9:08pm
De Angelis
Christos Hatzis
Elmer Iseler Singers
Lydia Adams, conductor
Amadeus Chamber Singers
Laura Pudwell, mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Whelan, soprano
Andrea Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
Christina Stelmacovich, mezzo-soprano
CBC (RCI) 1156
9:37pm
Benedicta es celorum
Anonymous English
Trio Mediaeval
ECM 1753
9:42pm
"Tractus II"
Ezequiel Vinao
Absolute Ensemble
Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Ben Harrington, trombone
Bis 1187
9:46pm
Tu m'uccidi, o crudele
Carlo Gesualdo
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley, conductor
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Evelyn Tubb, soprano
Mary Nichols, alto
Joseph Cornwell, tenor
Andrew King, tenor
Richard Wistreich, bass
Decca 475 9110
9:49pm
Fantasy in B Minor, Op. 28
Alexander Scriabin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Hyperion 67131
9:58pm
"Grand Alap"
Chinary Ung
Walter Gray, cello
Rob Tucker, percussion
New World Records 80619
10:13pm
Replica
Peter Eotvos
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Peter Eotvos, conductor
Kim Kashkashian, viola
ECM 1711
10:28pm
Beyond the Mountains
P. Q. Phan
William F. Brooks, conductor
E. Michael Richards, clarinet
Julieta L. Mihai, violin
Leonardo G. Altino, cello
Kazuko Tonasaki, piano
New World
10:43pm
Trem para Codisburgo
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Sergio and Odair Assad, guitars
nonesuch 278140-2
10:44pm
Sonata al Santo Sepolcro, K. 376
Johann Joseph Fux
Ensemble Caprice
Matthias Maute, director
Monika Mauch, soprano
atma ACD2 2347
10:48pm
Eli Eli
Jonathan Berger
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Naxos 8.559342
10:51pm
Instrumental
Hildegard von Bingen
Sequentia
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77378
10:58pm
Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, "Cantus Arcticus"
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor
BIS 575
11:16pm
The Apple Tree
Ludovico Einaudi
Carlo Boccadoro, conductor
Paolo Fre, flute and piccolo
Mirco Ghirardini, clarinet and blass clarinet
Thomas Schrott, violin
Andrea Rebaudengo, piano
Marco Decimo, cello
Cantaloupe 21030
11:26pm
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Aaron Copland
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen, conductor
Argo 443 203-2
11:58pm
Sub rosa
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars Ensemble
ECM 1533