Daily Schedule

On todays show, we’ll look into Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy of climate change legislation. We’ll take you inside a legendary place where many artists have lived, loved (and even died), the Chelsea Hotel. Grammy-winning saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Paul Winter gives us a preview of his upcoming Winter Solstice Celebration. And Thomas Healy explains how Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes changed changed the history of free speech in America. 

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Today, the only guest on the Brian Lehrer Show is YOU! We'll take your calls in our yearly all-open-phones show, with conversations about what it means to be middle income in New York...

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

In this episode: Soundcheck's week-long look back at the year in music of 2013 continues. First, Caryn Ganz, editorial director of RollingStone.com, shares her favorite music of 2013.

Then, a very special 2013 edition of Soundcheck's ongoing series That Was a Hit?!? with chart-obsessed contributors Mario Correa and Chris Molanphy -- who predict which of this year’s smash hits will be ridiculed 20 years from now -- by music snobs in their flying cars.

And more of our favorite in-studio performances from the past year.

For this New Sounds, hear music that features the gamelan, that large percussion orchestra, (usually metal - \m/), traditionally associated with the royal courts of Indonesia.  Listen to music from the Royal Court Gamelan of Surakarta, from a classic Nonesuch Explorer recording.  Also, hear music for gamelan by the American composer Lou Harrison, who with his partner, Bill Colvig, eventually designed and built their own gamelan ensembles.  Plus, there’s music from the German composer Eberhard Schoener who combined gamelan and electronics, along with something from Gamelan Son of Lion.