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January 2008
Virtuoso
Friday, January 25, 2008
In the music world, being labeled a virtuoso is the highest compliment... or is it? WNYC's Sara Fishko considers the question, in this edition of the Fishko Files.
More To Do:
Marc-André Hamelin will be performing with renowned violinist Midori at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall next month. Click here for more information and tickets.
More To Hear:
Listen to Sara Fishko's Hour with Oscar Peterson, an in-depth interview with music.
You can purchase recordings of Marc-André Hamelin's "virtuosic" performance of Godowsky or the more "emotive" Haydn at amazon.com.
From The Archives: The Long and the Short (Originally Aired 11/17/00)
Friday, January 18, 2008
The cliche that 'everybody is always in a hurry' is true in art too. As Sara Fishko tells us, in the arts sometimes it's not even what's in the work, but how long it lasts.
From The Archives: Antheil (Originally Aired 12/1/00)
Friday, January 11, 2008
The year 2000 has been a big one for American musical centennials: Aaron Copland, Louis Armstrong, but there's still time to squeeze in one more musical American who, as Sara Fishko tells us, went quite another way.
From The Archives: Orpheus (Originally Aired 1/19/01)
Friday, January 04, 2008
There's always a major orchestra looking for a permanent conductor, it seems. Though as Sara Fishko tells us, there's still an orchestra out there that plays without a conductor altogether.
