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November 2006
Heart and Soul
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
This famous scene from the movie ‘Big’ featured Tom Hanks, jumping around on a giant piano keyboard. It resonated with moviegoers partly because the tune he was dancing-out was one nearly everybody recognized. Why? WNYC’s Sara Fishko meditates on the mysteries of a popular tune....in this edition of the Fishko Files...
William Bolcom
Friday, November 17, 2006
American Composer William Bolcom's compositions are widely performed and recorded; he's written music of every type, comfortably mixing styles and genres. As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, Bolcom was, and is, a careful, passionate music-listner as well, and what he listens to tells us a lot about the history of music, both high and low. Here is the next Fishko Files...
Listen to Bolcom's “Dead Moth Tango”
William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) is available for purchase at
Amazon.com
Improvisation
Friday, November 10, 2006
Some music is composed from top to bottom, every note written in advance. Some is just made up, on the spot. And then there is music that is a combination of the two: it's improvised around the framework of something already composed. Sara Fishko talked--and listened--to improvisors trying to tell her where they went with a tune, and how, and why.
This program originally aired on February 22, 2003.
Rivals in Art
Friday, November 03, 2006
Years ago The Museum of Modern Art presented the "Matisse Picasso" program. The exhibition showed the influence and the opposition of these two star-artists. They were friends, colleagues - and rivals. The show left Sara Fishko wondering about other examples.
