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Evening Music

Monday, December 31, 2007
  • New Year's 2008

    New Year's Eve Specials

    Join us as we ring in 2008 with special programming, including our music staff picks for best recordings of the year, A Paul Winter Solstice Concert with host John Schaefer, and Garrison Keillor's New Year's Eve Special.

Mahler Five with Gustavo Dudamel

Best Recordings of 2007

Airs at 7PM on 93.9FM
What was the best recording of the year? That was the question we posed to our music staff — and tonight we hear the results, from Armchair Apocrypha to Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.

Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Celebration

A Paul Winter Solstice Celebration

Airs at 8PM on 93.9FM
John Schaefer hosts this annual Winter Solstice Concert, featuring Award-winning saxophonist and composer Paul Winter in a musical, theatrical and environmental spectacle celebrating the return of the sun after the longest night of the year.

Garrison Keillor with cast of APHC (Cheryl Walsh Bellville)

Garrison Keillor's New Year's Eve Special

Airs at 10PM on 93.9FM
A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor celebrates New Year's Eve from Nashville, Tennesee's historic Ryman Auditorium, home of the Grand Ole Opry.

The Mostly Mozart Festival on WNYC

Listen on Demand

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

Listen on Demand

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.