Sara Fishko

Sara Fishko appears in the following:

Sara Davis Buechner Comes Home

Thursday, September 29, 2016

After years teaching in another country, a seasoned pianist comes home.

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The Jazz Legends Next Door

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Between 1957 and 1965 in New York, dozens of jazz musicians jammed night after night in a dilapidated Sixth Avenue loft. Sara Fishko's new documentary chronicles those years.

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Jazzmen Keepnews & Monk: Good Together

Thursday, September 22, 2016

The late Orrin Keepnews had a special connection with a variety of jazz musicians - especially Thelonious Monk.

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Family of Man

Thursday, September 15, 2016

From the archives: Edward Steichen took on the whole human race in his 1955 show at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Jazz Photography

Thursday, September 08, 2016

From the archives: WNYC's Sara Fishko talks with two late, great jazz photographers about capturing musical giants on film.

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The Loser

Thursday, September 01, 2016

David Lang's new opera at BAM gives voice to a competitive, frustrated concert pianist.

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Committed to Memory

Thursday, August 25, 2016

In an age of instant access and digital recall, the Chiara String Quartet is committing their music to memory.

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Chayefsky

Thursday, August 18, 2016

From the archives: As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, the multiple-Oscar-winning Chayefsky fought to the death for every fierce and furious word he wrote.

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Florence Foster Jenkins

Thursday, August 11, 2016

From the archives: As the subject of an upcoming biopic starring Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins may have been so bad that she was good.

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William Bolcom

Thursday, August 04, 2016

From the archives: WNYC’s Sara Fishko interviews William Bolcom, the genre-mixing, music-loving, composer-quoting writer of all kinds of musical works.

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Heart and Soul

Thursday, July 28, 2016

From the archives: Sara Fishko meditates on the mysteries of a VERY popular tune.

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The Freakishly Empathetic Photos of Diane Arbus

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Photographer Diane Arbus’ work captured people at the margins of society and put them at the center of her provocative, mysterious, and unsettling portraits.

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Romeo and Juliet

Thursday, July 21, 2016

From the archives: WNYC’s Sara Fishko charts several iterations of Romeo and Juliet, and considers how that classic Shakespeare tragedy inspired a great Russian ballet score.

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Diane Arbus

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Diane Arbus formed a remarkable bond with her photographic subjects.

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How New York Fashion Week Created American Style

Thursday, June 02, 2016

For most of the early 1900s, America took its fashion cues from Paris. But in 1943, Eleanor Lambert changed the game.

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Rostropovich

Thursday, May 05, 2016

From the archives: Reflections on the life and work of the gifted cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, following his death in 2007.

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Surveillance

Thursday, April 21, 2016

From the archives: The line between surveillance and entertainment, says WNYC’s Sara Fishko, has never been blurrier. 

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A Face in the Crowd

Thursday, April 14, 2016

The current political moment offers a chance to rediscover an old film about an American rise and fall. 

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Composers Who Perform

Thursday, March 31, 2016

From the archives: Ravel, Debussy and Prokofiev are among the composers who made piano-recordings of their own works — and they have Sara Fishko pondering the nature of interpretation.

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The Mystique of the Horn Player

Thursday, March 24, 2016

From the archives: Chet Baker and Miles Davis are both the subjects of new biopics, but the mystique of the horn player has long held a special place in musical mythology.

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