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October 2006
Tania Leon
Friday, October 27, 2006
In mid-November, the music of the Cuban-born composer Tania Leon will be featured at The Gatehouse at Harlem Stage. Leon’s music sounds contemporary, but draws on her Afro-Cuban roots. To her, there’s nothing really new in anyone’s music; there are only new ways of using old musical ingredients. WNYC’s Sara Fishko spoke with her... for this edition of the Fishko Files.
Chayefsky
Friday, October 20, 2006
Film is a visual medium, but the words that inspire the pictures are critical. The screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky died 25 years ago, but people still remember his films, vividly; and what they tend to remember...are the words. Here is the next Fishko Files...
"Marty", "Network" and many of Chayefsky's other films are available for purchase at
Amazon.com
Battling Over Brahms
Saturday, October 14, 2006
This week, the New York Philharmonic opened it’s new season of concerts; which has WNYC’s Sara Fishko looking back at a New York Phil concert of long ago – one which featured a great conductor, an adventurous soloist – and a battle. The entire April, 1962 Brahms concert was preserved, thanks to a radio broadcast, and is now available on CD, including an interview with Glenn Gould.
Available for purchase at Amazon.com
Holocaust Films
Friday, October 13, 2006
Almost 30 years ago, Holocaust, the TV mini-series, was broadcast on NBC. The fictionalized drama was the first graphic telling of the story of the extermination of the Jews in World War II, for a mass audience. As Sara Fishko tells us, it coincided with a new era for the treatment of the subject on film.
Beethoven Revisited
Friday, October 06, 2006
WNYC’s Beethoven Festival begins tomorrow night. So it seems like a good time to revisit Sara Fishko’s consideration of one enormously popular body of Beethoven works – the 32 piano sonatas. What is the attraction of these pieces? Here is the next Fishko Files...
Starting tomorrow night on Evening Music, and continuing through Friday, WNYC features the music of Beethoven in ALL its forms – with special guests, special prizes and live broadcasts. For more on the festival, check our website, wnyc.org.
