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Sunday, June 03, 2007
  • American Music Festival 2007

    Americana Redux

    David Garland wraps up WNYC's American Music Festival with a special Spinning on Air, highlighting the musical theater piece "Passing Strange" at The Public Theater. And later on, David spins some of his own favorite pieces of musical Americana from his personal collection.

    The 2007 American Music Festival on WNYC

Stew and Heidi Rodewald

Passing Strange

Airs Sunday, June 3 at 7PM on 93.9 FM
Songwriters Stew and Heidi Rodewald join host David Garland to talk about their unusual musical theater piece, "Passing Strange." An elegant and innovative coming of age story, "Passing Strange" deals with art, race, class—and the effort to find one's self with out being too selfish.

Gilbert Kaplan

Mad About American Music

Airs Sunday, June 3 at 9PM on 93.9 FM
Gilbert Kaplan presents a special edition of Mad About Music, exploring the popularity of American composers by revisiting appearances of 11 of its 55 guests who chose an American work to be played on the show — including Tom Brokaw, Alan Alda, Renee Fleming and Condoleezza Rice.

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