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June 2007
From The Archives: Orchestration (Originally Aired February 2, 2002)
Friday, June 29, 2007
Toiling behind the scenes of Broadway musicals, new and revived, are the orchestrators. Here is a Fishko File.
Surveillance
Friday, June 22, 2007
Sixty years ago this month, the debut of a new radio show--using a hidden microphone--blurred the line between surveillance and entertainment. These days, as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, the line is blurrier than ever. Here is the next Fishko Files.
More:
Profiling, an exhibition of two video-based, interactive art installations exploring issues of surveillance, is on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art until September 9th.
Read more from Jonathan Raban, author of the novel Surveillance, at his website.
Buy the classic films Rear Window, and The Conversation at amazon.com.
From The Archives: Classical Music Editing (Originally Aired April 12, 2002)
Friday, June 15, 2007
Last time you bought a classical recording, maybe you wondered where the edits were. Sara Fishko looks at the reality and the illusion of the classical CD, in this edition of the Fishko Files.
The Mystique of the Horn Player
Friday, June 08, 2007
Today a restored version of a film made 20 years ago about the horn player and singer Chet Baker re-opens in New York. It’s combination of fact and fantasy has WNYC’s Sara Fishko trying to make sense of the horn-player’s special place in musical mythology. Here is the next Fishko Files.
Learn More!
See Bruce Weber's documentary Let's Get Lost at Film Forum.
Buy some of the music by Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Bix Beiderbecke heard in this Fishko File at amazon.com.
Hoagy Carmichael (First aired April 26, 2002)
Friday, June 01, 2007
The work of Hoagy Carmichael, the musician and movie actor born more than a hundred years ago, is in a period of rediscovery. Richard Sudhalter's book, Stardust Melody, published by Oxford University Press, is recently out. And so is Bill Charlap's CD of Carmichael songs, on the Blue Note label, entitled Stardust.
