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Evening Music

Monday, November 19, 2007
  • Cirque du Soleil
    Cirque du Soleil

    Circuses, Rock Operas, and O'Riley

    Culture critic John Rockwell weighs in on circuses and rock operas. Also, pianist (and radio host) Christopher O'Riley channels Radiohead.

John Rockwell

Rockwell Matters

In this episode of Rockwell Matters, John Rockwell explores the allure and history of multimedia spectacles such as Fuerzabruta and Cirque de Soleil, while looking forward to opera productions with a rock 'n roll flair — including the dazzling displays of director Robert Lepage, whose work will be seen at the Metropolitan Opera next year.

Christopher O'Riley

Radiohead à la O'Riley

Pianist Christopher O'Riley first began playing his renditions of Radiohead to fill break time during his radio show From the Top. We hear "street spirit (fade out)" from his second album of Radiohead transcriptions, hold me to this.

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The Mostly Mozart Festival on WNYC

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This year's annual Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center is rife with sounds stretching the spectrum of Requiems, Metamorphoses, and Passions — including the American premiere of composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho's tale of the sufferings of French mystic Simone Weil, who died of starvation in protest to the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1943.

Deerhoof/Metropolis Ensemble Live Webcast

Evening Music

WNYC and NPR Music team up to bring you this live webcast from the Prospect Park Bandshell, which pairs indie rock sensation Deerhoof with the progressive Metropolis Ensemble. Presented by Celebrate Brooklyn! and Wordless Music, and hosted by David Garland, the program features an ambitious re-imagining of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, The Rite: Remixed.

Related Links:
Video: Deerhoof fans perform leaked track for WNYC
View photos from the concert
Deerhoof on Spinning on Air (March 18, 2007)
NPR Music
Metropolis Ensemble
Deerhoof
Celebrate Brooklyn!
Wordless Music
Listen on Demand to more Wordless Music Concerts

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.

2008 American Music Festival

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Hosts Terrance McKnight and David Garland curate the 68th annual American Music Festival, featuring "America's Classical Music." Guests include LD Brown a.k.a. Grey Reverend; acclaimed jazz pianist Jason Moran; composer and musicologist Gunther Schuller; culture critic John Rockwell; new music guru John Zorn, and Pulitzer prize-winning composer William Bolcom.