Watch Two Opera Stars Record Their Voices on Edison Wax Cylinders
If rising vinyl sales are any indicator, a good portion of us crave a throwback, tactile listening experience. The Met Opera seems to have taken note, because earlier this year they, too, experimented...
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1958: A Conversation with Van Cliburn
On May 26, 1958, WQXR program director Abram Chasins interviewed the Texan pianist Van Cliburn, just a few weeks after he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition.The Tchaikovsky...
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1949: Stravinsky Visits WQXR with 'Orpheus'
The immediacy of hearing a composer discuss their own work, as it unfolds, is a lot like watching the "director’s cut" of a DVD. Stravinsky's "aural program note" for his then-newly-composed ballet,...
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1956: Neil Sedaka Plays Debussy and Prokofiev at WQXR
Over the course of five decades, Neil Sedaka's career has undergone several major phases, including as a teen pop star in the late 1950s, a mature crooner in the '70s and as one of the legendary '60s...
View ArticleAn (Almost) New Year’s Eve Party for WQXR’s 75th
This final McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase of 2011 celebrates WQXR’s 75th anniversary by featuring some former artists: Alec Templeton, Leopold Stokowski and a special April Fools’ Day...
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Hugo Fiorato, Founder of WQXR String Quartet, Dies at 97
The conductor and violinist Hugo Fiorato, a founding member of the WQXR String Quartet and a fixture with the New York City Ballet, died April 23 at the age of 97, The New York Times reports.In 1947,...
View ArticleFirst Hearing with Lloyd Moss: 20th Anniversary Show
"First Hearing," hosted by the late Lloyd Moss, featured a changing panel of experts who gave their opinions of new, unidentified recordings. On this, the show's 20th anniversary program, taped before...
View ArticlePierre Boulez at 90: Interviews from the NYPR Archives
Thursday marks the 90th birthday of the revolutionary composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Famously outspoken on musical culture, he’s shared his views with New York Public Radio at various points...
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Listen: Van Cliburn's 1958 Broadcast Debut from Carnegie Hall
On May 19, 1958, some five weeks after winning the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Van Cliburn gave a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall that was broadcast live on WQXR.Joined by the Soviet...
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Lloyd Moss, WQXR Host for More Than 50 Years, Dies at 86
Lloyd Moss, a WQXR host of five decades who brought an irreverence and genial wit to the once staid universe of classical radio, died on Saturday at his home in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. He was 86 and had...
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WQXR Dabbled in Rock Music in 1969
It's 1969 on the new season of AMC's "Mad Men" and culture clashes are everywhere. Don Draper is making a shaky return to Sterling, Cooper & Partners. The patrician Roger Sterling is an LSD-taking...
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Throwback Thursday: WQXR Discusses 'The Lincoln Center' in 1961
Urban renewal projects were the great hope for the performing arts in 1961. For "Throwback Thursday," here's an excerpt from "A Year in Music," in which WQXR program director Abram Chasins and the...
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Margaret Juntwait, Former WNYC Host, Voice of Metropolitan Opera, Dies at 58
Margaret Juntwait, the former WNYC Radio announcer who became the first woman to host the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday Afternoon Radio Broadcasts, died on Wednesday of complications from ovarian...
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