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Only a handful of contemporary jazz pianists can play Harlem Stride, the sound of Fats Waller, James P. Johnson and Willie “the Lion” Smith. Very few of them play Stride on a regular ... (episode)
Is one genre of music superior to another? Should classical music do more to assert its greatness? Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, and Paul Jacobs, chair of the organ depar... (episode)
The Tokyo String Quartet is among the elder generation of string quartets, and one whose changing membership has made it even better. New York Times critic Allan Kozinn recently obser... (episode)
This Sunday, Harlem Week honors the late Ray Charles with a concert at Grant’s Tomb that includes performances by R&B; singers like Chuck Jackson, Freddie Jackson, and Lloyd Price, pl... (episode)
For a long time, arts groups in Queens struggled to find funding, recognition and audiences. But recent political efforts and government grants have helped to stimulate the arts in Ne... (episode)
So you want to write a seven-hour piece of music for 170-voice choir, organ, Tibetan horns, temple bells and brass band? Perhaps an enormous midsummer night's vigil to herald the "Cos... (episode)
Mercan Dede is a Turkish-born musician who mixes the ancient traditions of Sufi music with state-of-the-art techno beats and production. By mixing the secular and sacred, the old and ... (episode)
Productions by Francesca Zambello are always newsworthy. Next week should be no exception, when the American stage director visits Bard College to direct Shostakovich’s opera "The Nos... (episode)
At a time when “Chick Lit” is a hot literary form – detailing the lives, loves, adventures of young single urban women – there’s a new book that takes an unusual spin on the genre. Bo... (episode)
In the 1910s and 1920s New Jersey inventor Thomas Edison staged elaborate infomercials in which he blindfolded audiences in an attempt to judge which was producing the "real" sound: h... (episode)