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July 2009
On Hamlet
Friday, July 31, 2009
A Hamlet season is ahead: Jude Law will be on Broadway right after Labor Day in the play, and in March, the Met will stage the opera. WNYC’s Sara Fishko works up to it with this consideration, in the Fishko Files.
For more Hamlets -- as well as take-offs, send-ups, and new angles -- visit the WNYC culture blog.
From the Archives: Rostropovich (Originally Aired: 05/11/2007)
Friday, July 24, 2009
Mstislav Rostropovich was a rare combination: powerful conductor; courageous dissident; musical activist; but first he was a cellist. In this archival episode of the Fishko Files, Sara Fishko spoke to cellists about his influence.
From The Archives: City on Screen (Originally Aired 5/25/2007)
Friday, July 17, 2009
This episode was inspired by a screening of the 1969 classic New York movie Midnight Cowboy. Sara Fishko considers the films of that era and what they say about the city.
From the Archives: Mystique of the Horn Player (Originally Aired 06/08/2007)
Friday, July 10, 2009
This episode of The Fishko Files was inspired by a revival of the film Let’s Get Lost, about horn player and vocalist Chet Baker. Its combination of fact and fantasy had Sara Fishko trying to make sense of the horn-player’s special place in musical mythology.
From The Archives: Surveillance (Originally Aired 6/22/07)
Friday, July 03, 2009
In June of 1947, the debut of a new radio show – using a hidden microphone – blurred the line between surveillance and entertainment. As Sara Fishko tells us in this archival edition of the Fishko Files, the line is blurrier than ever.
