Being a musician, even a good amateur musician, requires hours of practice alone with one's instrument. But many players prefer company, and still rely on a system that's more than a half-century old. WNYC’s Sara Fishko visits Music Minus One. (Produced January, 2000)
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Looking back at the first Fashion Week
Garrick Ohlsson on Frederic Chopin
Reflecting on the many voices of Hamlet
On the 1939 World's Fair in New York
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Sara, You have outdone yourself. This essay is absolutely brilliant. What a guy he was. If we are lucky enough ...
Really interesting commentary as well as the excerpts themselves.
Loved listening to this piece, especially the audio of the contrasting musical styles. Thank you!
Great program, as usual, Sara. Thanks so much for these somewhat forgotten, historic gems. For MLK Day, I always play ...
Lena Horne and author David Margolick take us through the tangled story of a short song –Strange Fruit, 1930. (This Fishko Files was produced in 2000)
Next week will see the release of the cast album of the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Porgy and Bess. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, the controversy over the style and scale of the musical is in keeping with the long history of the piece. Here is the next Fishko Files…
With some good advice from her mother (“who needs Harvard?”), political dynamo Bella Abzug went to law school and later exploded on the political consciousness in the 1970s. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, listening to Bella is still a powerful experience. (Produced in 2008).
This coming Wednesday, a rare performance of the Busoni Piano Concerto will be heard at Carnegie Hall. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, Busoni was a musician with a fantastic combination of gifts, musical styles and inspiring thoughts about music’s future. Here is the next Fishko Files.
As we say good-bye to April, which is National Poetry Month, WNYC’s Sara Fishko listens to recorded poets, and asks, how do their speaking voices compare to their poems?
