Alicia Zuckerman

Alicia Zuckerman appears in the following:

Now Playing: Bronx Charter School for the Arts

Saturday, December 20, 2003

An innovative primary school in one of New York City’s poorest neighborhoods just opened this fall. Its students learn the basics — math, reading, history, and science — but all through the prism of art, music, literature, and performance. Studio 360 asked Alicia Zuckerman to pay regular visits to the ...

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Tickling The Keys From Brooklyn To Cuba

Friday, December 12, 2003

A boat full of pianos bound for Cuba ships out from Canada today. The journey began one week ago in Brooklyn. WNYC's Alicia Zuckerman was there.

AZ: It is a chilly morning at Moishe's warehouse in Williamsburg. A piano and a few assistants are loading ...

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The Bronx Charter School for the Arts

Monday, December 08, 2003

City public schools are trying to raise scores with a new curriculum. Charter schools operate free from the regular school system. One in Hunts Point is using the arts to change elementary education. In the first of a series of reports about the Bronx Charter ...

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NYPIRG Turns 30

Friday, November 07, 2003

The Freedom of Information Act, passed in 1974, makes official state government records available to the public. It's one of the 150 state and city laws that the New York Public Interest Research Group, better known as NYPIRG, has helped pass. Tomorrow NYPIRG celebrates its ...

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Indian Diaspora Film Festival

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

India is well-known for its movie industry. And as the Indian population in North America has doubled over the past decade, Indian-American filmmakers are making and showing more films here. Starting tonight at the Walter Reade Theater, the Third Annual Indian Diaspora Film Festival will ...

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Merce Cunningham on the New Season

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

On October 14th, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company began a four-performance run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It's the end of the Fiftieth Anniversary season for an artist who began as a tap and ballroom dancer in Centralia, Washington. As Cunningham was preparing to ...

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Zankel Halls Opens

Friday, September 12, 2003

One hundred and twelve years ago, the first notes of a piano recital rang out from Carnegie Hall - not from the main auditorium - but from a subterranean concert space, below West 57th Street. Tonight, after many different incarnations and renovations, a new performance ...

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Insurance Industry Continures to Feel Sting of 9/11

Tuesday, September 09, 2003

The attacks of September 11th dealt the largest blow to the insurance industry in history, forcing insurers to pay out forty billion dollars in claims and changing the way they do business. Two years later, many businesses continue to feel the sting. WNYC's Alicia Zuckerman ...

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Mostly Mozart's New Music Director

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

The Mostly Mozart Festival opens at Lincoln Center this week. This time last year it was an unfortunate scene. The festival orchestra went on strike after a bitter dispute with Lincoln Center management over hiring practices. Three-quarters of the concerts were cancelled, leaving audiences confused ...

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Carnegie Hall & New York Philharmonic To Merge

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Soon it might take more than practice to get to Carnegie Hall. Yesterday it was announced by the boards of the NY Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall that the 2 institutions have agreed to merge. Not only will the orchestra make the Hall its new home, ...

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Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier premiered last year, but doing the piece now, amid the backdrop of the war in Iraq, is a very different experience, says choreographer and director Tamar Rogoff.

TAMAR: I'm really interested in understanding war. I mean if there's any chance ...

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Paul Celan

Monday, January 13, 2003

The Eastern European-Jewish poet Paul Celan, who committed suicide in 1970, has been called "the most important poet of the Holocaust." Nine Circles Chamber Theater has created an unusual music theater work, "The Art of the Fugitive: the Paradoxical Life of Paul Celan." Alicia Zuckerman ...

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Businesses Around NYC Plan for Transit Strike

Thursday, December 12, 2002

With a possible strike looming, businesses throughout the city are being forced to consider how to help their employees keep working. Alicia Zuckerman has more.

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Bach Listening Room Tour

Thursday, October 17, 2002

For the past two years Matt Haimovitz has been traveling around the country, bringing the Bach solo cello suites to bars, clubs, and coffee houses. He calls it the "Bach Listening Room Tour." He recently played the legendary punk rock club CBGB, and Alicia Zuckerman ...

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Bruce Crawford to Head Lincoln Center

Monday, June 24, 2002

This week, Lincoln Center named 73 year old advertising executive Bruce Crawford as the new chairman of its board, replacing Beverly Sills. Lincoln Center now faces the Herculean task of raising one point two billion dollars for a redevelopment project. Many hope Crawford will be ...

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Adam Shapiro

Tuesday, April 09, 2002

When Yasser Arafat's compound was attacked by the Israeli military one week ago, 30-year-old Adam Shapiro, a humanitarian aide worker from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, convinced authorities to allow Palestinian doctors in to treat the wounded. As thanks, Arafat invited him for breakfast. Back in Sheepshead ...

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WTC: Monument Exhibit

Wednesday, February 06, 2002

The New York Historical Society and the Skyscraper Museum have unveiled a new exhibit dedicated to the World Trade Center, called WTC: Monument. Alicia Zuckerman was at the opening and has this report.

There are sketches, aerial photos, scale models, blueprints, even an old Port Authority ...

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Now Playing: Neolithic Quark

Saturday, December 15, 2001

Super-colliding subatomic particles erupt on the canvases of artist Steve Miller.

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Poeme Symphonique

Saturday, October 27, 2001

In Newport Beach, California, the organizers of the Eclectic Orange performance festival are staging a rarely-performed composition that allows the metronome to take the spotlight.

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Dance on Wall Street

Wednesday, August 29, 2001

On Sunday, the Downtown Dance Festival kicked of its 20th Anniversary of bringing outdoor performances to lower Manhattan's parks, plazas and piers. Reporter Alicia Zuckerman was there.

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